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Friends and friendship

Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Franklin, Benjamin

We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Talmud, The

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

Baker, Nicholson

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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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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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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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You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.

Fuller, Thomas

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Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

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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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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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

Holz, Julie

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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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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Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.