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Friends and friendship

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Machado, Aaron

Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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

Addison, Joseph

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

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

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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

Sallust

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

Saying, Hasidic

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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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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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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 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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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Augustine, St.

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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