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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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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wycherley, William

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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

Winchell, Walter

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Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.

Clark, Esther M.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ebers, George

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

Bible

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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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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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Sicilian

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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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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Digest, Readers

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

Chambers, Oswald

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