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Friends and friendship

The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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

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

Auden, W. H.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Francis De Sales, St.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Samuel

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

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Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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

Proverb, Indian

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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

Breton, Nicholas

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Jerome, St.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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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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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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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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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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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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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Thayer, Mary Dixon

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Homer

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar