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

Jefferson, Thomas

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

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

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

Crane, Frank

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

10.

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

11.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

12.

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

13.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

14.

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

15.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Winchell, Walter

19.

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

Blake, William

20.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

21.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

22.

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

Mermet, Claude

23.

Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

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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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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

28.

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

29.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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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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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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

38.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

40.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

41.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

43.

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

46.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

47.

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama