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

Quarles, Francis

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

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Addison, Joseph

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Proverb

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

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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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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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.