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Friends and friendship

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

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Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

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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

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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

Bible

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.

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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

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Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

Piper, E. K.

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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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

Proverb

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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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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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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

28.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. 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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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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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Eliot, T. S.

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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

Connolly, Cyril

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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Proverb