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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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Make friends before you need them

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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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

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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

Billings, Josh

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David