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Friends and friendship

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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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Proverb, Jewish

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

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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

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

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

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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

10.

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

11.

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

13.

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

14.

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

15.

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

Wein, Len

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

18.

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

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

20.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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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

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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

25.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

27.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

28.

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

29.

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

Perry, Ralph B.

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

Bible

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. ANDREW M. GREELEY

Greeley, Andrew M.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Lawes, Lewis E.

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Larson, Doug

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

44.

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

Proverb, English

45.

Make friends before you need them

46.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

May I always be worth of my friends.

49.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock