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

Proverb

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Bourne, Randolph S.

Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Byrnes, James F.

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Seneca

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

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

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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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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

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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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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.

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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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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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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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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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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good friends are good for your health.

Sarason, Irwin

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Proverb

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David