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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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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Watson, Thomas J.

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

Strindberg, J. August

You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Digest, Readers

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.

Mermet, Claude

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

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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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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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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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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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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

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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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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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

Fuller, Thomas

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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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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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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.