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Friends and friendship

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Tate, Nahum

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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

Gabirol, Ibn

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas

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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

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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

Larson, Doug

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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

31.

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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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Holz, Julie

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

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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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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De