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Friends and friendship

Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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

It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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

Addison, Joseph

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

10.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aristotle

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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Saying, Hasidic

23.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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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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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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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

Leonard, John

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

Euripides

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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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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

42.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

47.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)