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Friends and friendship

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

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

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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

An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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

Bible

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

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

11.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Machado, Aaron

15.

Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

16.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

17.

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

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

21.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

22.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

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

Walker, Alice

26.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

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

Mumford, Ethel Watts

28.

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

Rothschild, William E.

29.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

30.

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

Hitopadesa

31.

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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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

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

36.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

37.

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

Bible

38.

When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

39.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Johnson, Samuel

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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

Crane, Frank

43.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

45.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

47.

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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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

49.

A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

Breton, Nicholas