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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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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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

A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

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

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

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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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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Saying, Hasidic

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Sallust

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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

Walker, Alice

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Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits.

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

Euripides

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Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

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With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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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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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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

Clark, Esther M.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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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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Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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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It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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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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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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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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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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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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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