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Friends and friendship

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Branagh, Kenneth

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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

Francis De Sales, St.

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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We die as often as we lose a friend.

Syrus, Publilius

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Digest, Readers

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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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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I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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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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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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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

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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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Schulberg, Budd

45.

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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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

49.

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

Proverb, Indian

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible