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Friends and friendship

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

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

Gentry, David Tyson

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.

Proverb, Turkish

Your friendship is a glowing ember Through the year; and each December From its warm and living spark We kindle flame against the dark And with its shining radiance light Our tree of faith on Christmas night.

Lund, Thelma J.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

Meltzer, Bernard

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

10.

A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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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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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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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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Luther, Martin

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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

Crane, Frank

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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

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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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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

Bukowski, Charles

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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

Woolf, Virginia

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Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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

Piper, E. K.

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The best time to make friends is before you need them.

Barrymore, Ethel

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.

Randolf, G.

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A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Billings, Josh

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, English

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.