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Friends and friendship

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

10.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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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

13.

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.

14.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

18.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

21.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

24.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

25.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

27.

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Hazlitt, William

35.

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Addison, Joseph

37.

Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

40.

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

42.

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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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De