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Friends and friendship

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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

Digest, Readers

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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

Uris, Leon

A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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

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

Proverb, Sicilian

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

Billings, Josh

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

Sallust

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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

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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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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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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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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

Bach, Richard

39.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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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

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord