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Friends and friendship

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

31.

The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.