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Friends and friendship

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

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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

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.

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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

Randolf, G.

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

Proverb

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Wycherley, William

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Bach, Richard

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Everybody needs one essential friend.

Glasser, Dr. William

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

Piper, E. K.

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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Terence

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Talmud, The

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kaufman, Lois L.

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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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To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Proverb, Russian

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Johnson, Samuel

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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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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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature, of entertaining or useful qualities, that you complain of: on the contrary, they have probably many points of attraction; but they have one that neutralizes all these --they care nothing about you, and are neither the better nor worse for what you think of them. They manifest no joy at your approach; and when you leave them, it is with a feeling that they can do just as well without you. This is not sullenness, nor indifference, nor absence of mind; but they are intent solely on their own thoughts, and you are merely one of the subjects they exercise them upon. They live in society as in a solitude.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar