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Friends and Friendship QuotesFamous Friends and Friendship quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Fuller and others.
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[highlight-text]A friend is like a poem.
Persian Proverb
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[highlight-text]My friends are my estate.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]I am wealthy in my friends.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The company makes the feast.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]What I cannot love I overlook.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]Friends are a second existence.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Scratch a lover and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]Friends and wine should be old.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]A word of advice don't give it.
A. J. Volicos
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[highlight-text]Love your friend with his fault.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
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[highlight-text]Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
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[highlight-text]Jimmy and I were always partners.
Rosalynn Carter
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[highlight-text]Give and take makes good friends.
Scottish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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[highlight-text]Sudden friendship sure repentance.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Friends have all things in common.
Plato
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[highlight-text]A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]Friends come and go enemies linger.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]In a friend you find a second self.
Isabelle Norto
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
Tongan Proverb
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[highlight-text]True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]The rich know not who is his friend.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Susan Ferrier
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[highlight-text]We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
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[highlight-text]A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]A true friend is the best possession.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the bread of the heart.
Mary Russell Mitford
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[highlight-text]Flattery makes friends truth enemies.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
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[highlight-text]A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Here's a dime. Call all your friends.
Tom Meany
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[highlight-text]Your wealth is where your friends are.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]Platonic love is love from the neck up.
Tbyra Samter Winslow
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[highlight-text]A man is known by the company he keeps.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Friendship requires great communication.
Saint Francis de Sales
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[highlight-text]Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Nigerian Proverb
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[highlight-text]He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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[highlight-text]Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]There is no physician like a true friend.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Friendship is honey but don't eat it all.
Moroccan Proverb
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[highlight-text]Books and friends should be few but good.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
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[highlight-text]Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A friend must not be injured even in jest.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Forget your woes when you see your friend.
Priscian
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[highlight-text]None is so rich as to throw away a friend.
Turkish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Friendship neither finds nor makes equals.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha
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[highlight-text]Great friendship is never without anxiety.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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[highlight-text]The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Friendship that flames goes out in a flash.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
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[highlight-text]He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
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[highlight-text]Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Of my friends I am the only one I have left.
Terence
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[highlight-text]Friendship's a noble name 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
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[highlight-text]True friendship is self-love at second hand.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
William James
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[highlight-text]What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]If I don't have friends then I ain't nothing.
Billie Holiday
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[highlight-text]Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
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[highlight-text]It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
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[highlight-text]Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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[highlight-text]Where there is lasting love there is a family.
Shere Hite
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[highlight-text]A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.
Turkish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
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[highlight-text]It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
Edna Buchanan
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[highlight-text]One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
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[highlight-text]Have but few friends though many acquaintances.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
May Sarton
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[highlight-text]Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
Turkish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Be slow in choosing a friend slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]A man becomes like those whose society he loves.
Hindu Proverb
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[highlight-text]Shared joys make a friend not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
John Churton Collins
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[highlight-text]Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
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[highlight-text]Flatterers look like friends as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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[highlight-text]One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]When one friend washes another both become clean.
Dutch Proverb
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[highlight-text]Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]There is no hope or joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]The bird a nest; the spider a web; man friendship.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.
Jean Baptiste LaCordaire
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a plant which must be often watered.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Men only become friends by community of pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries tliem.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Quintus Ennius
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[highlight-text]Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
Homer
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[highlight-text]The richer your friends the more they will cost you.
Elizabeth Marbury
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[highlight-text]Old as she was she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
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[highlight-text]He does good to himself who does good to his friend.
Erasmus
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[highlight-text]Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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[highlight-text]Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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[highlight-text]Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.
R. D. Hicks
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[highlight-text]It is easier to visit friends than to live with them.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
Scottish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.
Bible
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[highlight-text]He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]There are formalities between the closest of friends.
Japanese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille
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[highlight-text]When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
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[highlight-text]Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]When good cheer is lacking our friends will be packing.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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[highlight-text]Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
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[highlight-text]Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
Lois L. Kaufman
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A man Sir should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.
Julie Holz
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[highlight-text]Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]The lion is ashamed it's true when he hunts with the fox.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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[highlight-text]A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it.
The Optimist
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[highlight-text]A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.
Lord Halifax
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[highlight-text]Tell me whom you frequent and I will tell you who you are.
French Proverb
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[highlight-text]Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]If you want an accounting of your worth count your friends.
Merry Browne
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[highlight-text]The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
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[highlight-text]Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A single rose can be my garden... a single friend my world.
Leo Buscaglia
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[highlight-text]The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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[highlight-text]Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
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[highlight-text]To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Norman Douglas
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[highlight-text]Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
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[highlight-text]He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
Silas Weir Mitchell
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[highlight-text]A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
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[highlight-text]Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
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[highlight-text]Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]A friend is one who dislikes the same people that you dislike.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
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[highlight-text]Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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[highlight-text]Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
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[highlight-text]Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]Do not protect yourself by a fence but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb
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[highlight-text]The thicker one gets with some people the thinner they become.
Puzant Thomain
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[highlight-text]Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
Alice Walker
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[highlight-text]If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
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[highlight-text]Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
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[highlight-text]Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne
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[highlight-text]You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
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[highlight-text]The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
Robert J. Havighurst
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[highlight-text]We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
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[highlight-text]Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]God same me from my friends I can protect myself from my enemies.
Marshal de Villars
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[highlight-text]One thing everybody in the world wants and needs is friendliness.
William E. Holler
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[highlight-text]There are worse words than cuss words; there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen
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[highlight-text]So often the truth is told with hate and lies are told with love.
Rita Mae Brown
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[highlight-text]I want no men around me who have not the knack of making friends.
Frank A. Vanderlip
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[highlight-text]Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]With true friends . . . even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
Rupert Brooke
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[highlight-text]Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Instead of loving your enemies treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]111 company is like a dog who dirts those most whom he loves best.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]The friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
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[highlight-text]God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.
Marshall de Villars
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[highlight-text]Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
John Churton Collins
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[highlight-text]Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry
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[highlight-text]Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
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[highlight-text]To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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[highlight-text]Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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[highlight-text]Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Friendship admits of difference of character as love does that of sex.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]I play golf with friends sometimes but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan
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[highlight-text]Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Who friendship with a knave hath made is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay
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[highlight-text]That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
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[highlight-text]My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
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[highlight-text]And we find at the end of a perfect day The soul of a friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
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[highlight-text]Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
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[highlight-text]How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
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[highlight-text]There are three faithful friends: an old wife an old dog and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharp-eneth the countenance of his friend.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Those who cannot give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
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[highlight-text]One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Character builds slowly but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin
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[highlight-text]To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
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[highlight-text]A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.
Ann D. Parrish
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[highlight-text]If you always live with those who are lame you will yourself learn to limp.
Latin Proverb
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[highlight-text]Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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[highlight-text]Winning has always meant much to me but winning ftiends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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[highlight-text]You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a word the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
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[highlight-text]My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
Gabrielle Reece
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[highlight-text]Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them too often.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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[highlight-text]The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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[highlight-text]Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it even if bad to a classic.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Wishing to be friends is quick work but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
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[highlight-text]Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Bible
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[highlight-text]A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
Duchess Prazlin
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[highlight-text]The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
Jill Ruckelshaus
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[highlight-text]Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.
Harry E. Humphreys
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[highlight-text]We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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[highlight-text]You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Hillary Clinton
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[highlight-text]If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
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[highlight-text]Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]Before a secret is told one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
Susan Griffin
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[highlight-text]A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Ogden Nash
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[highlight-text]We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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[highlight-text]The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Bible
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[highlight-text]There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
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[highlight-text]A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
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[highlight-text]No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
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[highlight-text]You never know how many friends you have until you rent a cottage at the beach.
Kraig Kristofferson
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[highlight-text]He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past so we should be all right.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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[highlight-text]No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
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[highlight-text]A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
Apocrypha
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[highlight-text]Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Bible
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[highlight-text]Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour
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[highlight-text]It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
Mary Webb
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[highlight-text]Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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[highlight-text]The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.
Elizabeth Stone
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[highlight-text]Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]She is one of my best friends. Why I've known her ever since we were the same age.
Galen Cooper
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[highlight-text]Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
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[highlight-text]Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses.
Comtesse Diane
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[highlight-text]Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tehyi Hsieh
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a union of spirits a marriage of hearts and the bond there of virtue.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
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[highlight-text]All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
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[highlight-text]Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Without wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness.
Marshall McLuhan
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[highlight-text]It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.
Cher
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[highlight-text]One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
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[highlight-text]Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
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[highlight-text]An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good you must a hundred try.
Claude Mermet
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[highlight-text]Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
David Herbert Lawrence
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[highlight-text]Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere
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[highlight-text]If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]There is only one thing better than making a new friend and that is keeping an old one.
Elmer G. Letterman
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[highlight-text]True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
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[highlight-text]The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]In the End we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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[highlight-text]A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
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[highlight-text]A real friend helps us think our best thoughts do our noblest deeds be our finest selves.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]No greater burden can be born by an individual than to know none who cares or understands.
Arthur H. Stainback
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[highlight-text]Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence secretiveness or sudden outburst.
Eleanor H. Porter
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[highlight-text]Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Acquaintance I would have but when it depends not on the number but the choice of friends.
Abraham Cowley
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[highlight-text]Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
Mason Cooky
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[highlight-text]The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]In reality we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.
Dr. Wilhelm Stekhel
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[highlight-text]Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable to him; a new friend is as new wine.
Bible
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[highlight-text]If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]The best way to keep your friends is to never owe them anything and never lend them anything.
Paul de Kock
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[highlight-text]One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
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[highlight-text]Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]The chain of friendship however bright does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
Sir Walter Scott
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[highlight-text]Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.
Bill Nye
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[highlight-text]Those will be thy best friends not to whom thou hast done good but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
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[highlight-text]Ultimately the bond of all companionship wheather in marriage or in friendship is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]Fond as we are of our loved ones there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
Ann Shaw
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[highlight-text]To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!
Hannah Moore
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[highlight-text]It is not the services we render them but the services they render us that attaches people to us.
Labiche et Martin
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[highlight-text]We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart I'll stay there forever.
A. A. Milne
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[highlight-text]I loathe a friend ... who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Sandra Day O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White
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[highlight-text]Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
Louise Bernikow
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[highlight-text]There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.
Bible
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[highlight-text]If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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[highlight-text]You don't just luck into things... You build step by step whether it's friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
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[highlight-text]No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne
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[highlight-text]As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]The support of one's personality is friends. A part of one's self and a real foundation and existence.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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[highlight-text]No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley
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[highlight-text]Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
Ned Rorem
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[highlight-text]Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Ouida
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[highlight-text]We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter. ... It's the way friends make love to one another.
Annie Gottlieb
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[highlight-text]A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
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[highlight-text]Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.
Florence H. Winterburn
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[highlight-text]In real friendship the judgment the genius the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
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[highlight-text]I maintain that if everyone knew what others said about him there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
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[highlight-text]No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Marion Crawford
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[highlight-text]If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]In meeting again after a separation acquaintances ask after our outward life friends after our inner life.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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[highlight-text]When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack; dead we remember only those they possessed.
J. Petit-Senn
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[highlight-text]The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
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[highlight-text]Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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[highlight-text]Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers you may not eat them.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing
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[highlight-text]The more we love our friends the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
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[highlight-text]Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Jane Taylor
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[highlight-text]As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]A man that hath friends must show himself friendly; and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Bible
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[highlight-text]In prosperity friends do not leave you unless desired whereas in adversity they stay away of their own accord.
Demetrius
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[highlight-text]It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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[highlight-text]Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.
John Hay
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[highlight-text]Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
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[highlight-text]Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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[highlight-text]Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Many a friendship-long loyal and self-sacrificing-rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
Frederick W. Faber
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[highlight-text]How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I always felt that the great high privilege relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
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[highlight-text]A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.
Arab Proverb
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[highlight-text]If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
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[highlight-text]Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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[highlight-text]I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right but when I am a little in the wrong.
Sir Walter Scott
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[highlight-text]All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
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[highlight-text]You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
Laurence J. Peter
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[highlight-text]Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Hippolytus
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[highlight-text]You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text][Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
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[highlight-text]I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
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[highlight-text]Here's a toast to someone who's truly a best friend - a person who goes around telling good things behind your back.
Elmer Pasta
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[highlight-text]Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.
Jane Howard
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[highlight-text]Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Arthur Brisbane
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[highlight-text]Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Julius Charles Hare
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[highlight-text]Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not my wrath did grow.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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[highlight-text]In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile who weeps when I weep for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
Lady Henry Somerset
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[highlight-text]A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasow
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[highlight-text]My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.
Brother Sammy Shore
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[highlight-text]As the psychiatrist said to the cannibal at the end of a session: 'Your problem is easy you're just fed up with people.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]I am treating you as my friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]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.
Robert Brault
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[highlight-text]The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
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[highlight-text]Should auld acquaintances be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot And days o'auld lang syne?
James Drummond Burns
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[highlight-text]No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
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[highlight-text]I have come to esteem history as a component of friendships. In my case at least friendships are not igneous but sedimentary.
Jane Howard
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[highlight-text]I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
General Sir John Monash
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[highlight-text]You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]Both within the family and without our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.
Elizabeth Fishel
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[highlight-text]Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.
Daniel Frohman
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[highlight-text]My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow
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[highlight-text]Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]We live in fact in a world starved for solitude silence and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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[highlight-text]Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually by recounting our grief we can lighten each other's sorrow.
The Kanteletar
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[highlight-text]Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]0 summer friendship whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity With the least gust drop off in the autumn of adversity.
Philip Massinger
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[highlight-text]Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
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[highlight-text]Nature has been for me for as long as I remember a source of solace inspiration adventure and delight; a home a teacher a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
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[highlight-text]A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
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[highlight-text]Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
Charles M. Schwab
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[highlight-text]Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Tis the sole remedy against misfortune the very ventilation of the soul.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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[highlight-text]To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.
Robert E. Frederick
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[highlight-text]Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
Horace Walpole
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[highlight-text]I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.
George Edward Woodberry
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[highlight-text]There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
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[highlight-text]Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
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[highlight-text]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.
Pietro Aretino
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[highlight-text]Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
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[highlight-text]Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
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[highlight-text]However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
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[highlight-text]Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.
Ann Landers
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[highlight-text]There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say 'Here I am!' and those who come in and say 'Oh there you are.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
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[highlight-text]I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.
John Muir
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[highlight-text]There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
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[highlight-text]There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]My only sketch profile of heaven is a large blue sky and larger than the biggest I have seen in June-and in it are my friends-every one of them.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.
Charles Jones
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[highlight-text]The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
Eugene Kennedy
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[highlight-text]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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.
Saint Francis de Sales
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[highlight-text]Probably no man ever had a friend he did not dislike a little; we are all so constituted by nature that no one can possibly entirely approve of us.
Edgar Watson Howe
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[highlight-text]My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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[highlight-text]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.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.
George Macdonald
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[highlight-text]The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
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[highlight-text]Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.
Cokie Roberts
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[highlight-text]We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Love is like the wild-rose briar; Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Bronte
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[highlight-text]You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]But friendship is precious not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
Sarah Ellis
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[highlight-text]A friend is someone who upon seeing another friend in immense pain would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Amanda Grier
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[highlight-text]A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly takes all patiently defends courageously and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Love me please; I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do I give up my whole self to it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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[highlight-text]What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.
Jean de la Fontaine
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[highlight-text]The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[highlight-text]To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.
Edith Wharton
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[highlight-text]If I made it it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea Gibson
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[highlight-text]If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
A. J. Cronin
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[highlight-text]Friendship like the immortality of the soul is too good to be believed. When friendships are real they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.
William James
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[highlight-text]Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures costs nothing and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus like mercy is twice blessed.
Erastus Wiman
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[highlight-text]There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity and it soothes the soul.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow; But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
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[highlight-text]By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.
Panchatantra
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[highlight-text]Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.
Jean-Henri Fabre
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[highlight-text]I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.
Gerard de Nerval
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[highlight-text]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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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[highlight-text]I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend perhaps the friend sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile if the artful but know it is the greatest weapon a face can have.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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[highlight-text]We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston
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[highlight-text]Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend to make one see him the truer.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I feel the need of relations and friendship of affection of friendly intercourse. ... I cannot miss these things without feeling as does any other intelligent man a void and a deep need.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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[highlight-text]If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.
Oscar W. Firkins
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[highlight-text]In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails why should one condemn oneself to live day in day out with people one does not like and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
Ruth Benedict
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[highlight-text]What men call friendship is no more than a partnership a mutual care of interests an exchange of favors - in a word it is a sort of traffic in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]If two friends ask you to judge a dispute don't accept because you will lose one friend; on the other hand if two strangers come with the same request accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the perfection of love and superior to love; it is love purified exalted proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love Madam may and love does often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
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[highlight-text]Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.
Emil Ludwig
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[highlight-text]She is a friend of mind. She gather me man. The pieces I am she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good you know when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Toni Morrison
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[highlight-text]Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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[highlight-text]My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think for a husband and wife the way to stay close is to do things together and share.
Barbara Bush
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[highlight-text]No human relation gives one possession in another...every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship and in love the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]If you have a friend worth loving Love him. Yes and let him know That you love him ere life's evening Tinge his brow with sunset glow. Why should good words ne'er be said Of a friend till he is dead?
Daniel W. Hoyt
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[highlight-text]Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]Today a man discovered gold and fame Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.
Helen Barker Parker
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[highlight-text]We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.
Julia Seton
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[highlight-text]I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end ... 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.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]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.
Pam Brown
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[highlight-text]My God this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends my goddamn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
Warren G. Harding
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[highlight-text]The friend of 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.
Ulysses S. Grant
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[highlight-text]Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error; to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]That friendship may be at once fond and lasting there must not only be equal virtue on each part but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed but the same means must be approved by both.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia Maria Child
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[highlight-text]When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone lest we never forget the love of a friend.
Christian H. Godefroy
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[highlight-text]True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement who can tolerate not knowing... not healing not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
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[highlight-text]Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them send their children wandering drown them in floods and fires and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne Robinson
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[highlight-text]The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty esteem cordiality sympathy affection readiness to aid to help to stick to fight for if need be. ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
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[highlight-text]It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.
Mark Rutherford
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[highlight-text]It is great to have friends when one is young but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young friends are like everything else a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg
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[highlight-text]My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.
John Addington Symonds
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[highlight-text]We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell
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[highlight-text]Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
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[highlight-text]True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island….to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks the less is left over for the others.
Elizabeth Fishel
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[highlight-text]I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer I have lost every other friend on earth I shall at st have one friend left and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body history and dreams.
Elizabeth Fishel
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[highlight-text]My helpless friend your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
O. Hallesby
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[highlight-text]A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.
Randolph Bourne
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[highlight-text]It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on without enquiry and almost at first sight the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the part known gives us evidence enough that the unknown part cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
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[highlight-text]Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! You can select them at random write to one dine with one visit one or take your problems to one. There is always at least one who will understand inspire and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George Matthew Adams
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[highlight-text]When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice solutions or cures have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
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[highlight-text]Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are melted into one conversation one glance one hurt and one hurt can be shattered and sprinkled over a thousand.
Gloria Naylor
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[highlight-text]We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit either in business or reputation improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]We call that person who has lost his father an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
Jeremy Taylor
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[highlight-text]What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones or the pleasure of change as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]We call that person who has lost his father an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.
Walter Savage Landor
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[highlight-text]My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles does not hurt me anywhere has moulded itself on my deformities and is complacent to all my movements and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as they will by the roadside expecting them to 'keep' by force of mere inertia.
William James
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[highlight-text]Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]Any man will usually get from other men what he is expecting from them. If he is looking for friendship he will likely receive it. If his attitude is that of indifference it will beget indifference. And if a man is looking for a fight he will in all likelihood be accommodated in that.
John Richelsen
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[highlight-text]There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him understood him interested ourself in his welfare. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These moments are the moments worth living.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]Tis the human touch in the world that counts-the touch of your hand and mine-Which means far more to the sinking heart than shelter or bread or wine For shelter is gone when the night is o'er and bread lasts only a day But the touch of the hand and the sound of the voice Live on in the soul always.
Spencer M. Free
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[highlight-text]I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
Morgan Freeman
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[highlight-text]If I wanted to become a tramp I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things I would look around me for those who are succeeding and do as they have done.
Joseph Marshall Wade
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[highlight-text]Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but pouring them all out just as they are chaff and grain together certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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[highlight-text]The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste coveting one another's desserts hiding shampoo locking each other out of our rooms inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant loving laughing defending and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
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[highlight-text]I observed once to Goethe ... that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied 'Yes! because the absent friend is yourself and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own and moves according to laws of his own which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.'
Arthur Schopenhauer