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Friends and friendship

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

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Prentice, George D.

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Tate, Nahum

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

Proverb, English

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Schulberg, Budd

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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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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Crane, Frank

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

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

Proverb, Russian

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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

Godospeed, Edgar

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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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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

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

Euripides

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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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