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Friends and friendship

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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

Quarles, Francis

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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

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

Bible

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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 always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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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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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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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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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Sallust

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make friends before you need them

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.