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Friends and friendship

May I always be worth of my friends.

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

Seneca

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

Storey, David

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

Gay, John

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

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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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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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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.

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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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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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Aristotle

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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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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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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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Walker, Alice

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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

Gracian, Baltasar

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

Augustine, St.

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

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]

Bible

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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

Francis De Sales, St.

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out