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Friends and friendship

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Pratt, David

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.

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

10.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

11.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

Home, Henry

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

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

22.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin

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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.

Kaufman, Lois L.

24.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Shakespeare, William

25.

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic''

26.

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

27.

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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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Proverb, Indian

40.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb

45.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Mizner, Wilson

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter