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Friends and friendship

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

21.

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Yeats, William Butler

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

Wycherley, William

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

29.

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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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

34.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

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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

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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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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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb