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Friends and friendship

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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Proverb

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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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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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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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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Proverb

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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.

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Proverb, Russian

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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

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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

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler