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Friends and friendship

He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gabirol, Ibn

These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

18.

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

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

Alcott, Louisa May

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Franklin, Miles

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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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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

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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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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Lee, Robert E.

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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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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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