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Friends and friendship

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

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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

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Proverb, Indian

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

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

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

11.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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 friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

24.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

27.

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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

30.

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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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

32.

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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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Wycherley, William

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

44.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril