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Friends and friendship

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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

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

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

Make friends before you need them

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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

Walker, Alice

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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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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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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

Proverb, Jewish

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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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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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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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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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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

Edwards, Robert C.

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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

Storey, David

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sallust

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum