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Friends and friendship

Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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

Epicurus

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sallust

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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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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Talmud, The

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

Wycherley, William

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

Addison, Joseph

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

Homer

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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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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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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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Proverb, Jewish

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)