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Friends and friendship

And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

Brault, Robert

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

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

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

Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Aristotle

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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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My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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

Storey, David

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Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Saying, Hasidic

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Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Make friends before you need them

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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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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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Walker, Alice

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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