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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Bible

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

Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Saying, Hasidic

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Woolf, Virginia

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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.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

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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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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

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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

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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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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Russian

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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.