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Friends and friendship

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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

The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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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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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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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Storey, David

17.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

18.

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Proverb, Indian

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A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence.

Condie, Sheryl

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

21.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

27.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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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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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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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

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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 should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Sallust

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time.

43.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

44.

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

45.

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

Theocritus

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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.

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

Euripides

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van