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Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Wilson, Thomas

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Winchell, Walter

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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

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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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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Machado, Aaron

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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

Larson, Doug

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Crane, Frank

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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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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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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