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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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

Branagh, Kenneth

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

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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

Proverb

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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Larson, Doug

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

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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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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quarles, Francis

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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 friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb