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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Francis De Sales, St.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William