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Friends and friendship

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Dickens, Charles

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Winchell, Walter

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

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crane, Frank

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Saying, Hasidic

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

Lee, Robert E.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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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 first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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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

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

28.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb

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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Uris, Leon

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Breton, Nicholas

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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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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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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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

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Storey, David

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

Talmud, The