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Friends and friendship

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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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Billings, Josh

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Aristotle

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Schulberg, Budd

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Jerome, St.

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

Meltzer, Bernard

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

Randolf, G.

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The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Machado, Aaron

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It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

19.

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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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer.

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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rothschild, William E.

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

Euripides

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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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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

FeNelon, Francois

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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

Storey, David

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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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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A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Darwin, Charles R.

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I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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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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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie