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Friends and friendship

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Larson, Doug

There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

Piper, E. K.

10.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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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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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

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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

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

20.

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

FeNelon, Francois

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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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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A faithful friend is a strong defense: and he that hath found one hath found a treasure.

Bible

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Machado, Aaron

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

31.

We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

33.

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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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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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

50.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.