Best Quotes About Friendship (Top 100)
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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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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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
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If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen
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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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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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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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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon
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When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'
Groucho Marx
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
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It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
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Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. Seuss
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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained
C.S. Lewis
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Maya Angelou
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James
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A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever
Dave Matthews Band
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Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
Charles Dickens
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The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
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I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Abraham Lincoln
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's 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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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin
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Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with
Gillian Anderson
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
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Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
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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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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
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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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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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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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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
Stephen Fry
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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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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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Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone
Mario Puzo
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Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.
Vincent Van Gogh
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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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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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When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Diane von Furstenberg
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No friendship is an accident.
O. Henry
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you: Today, no matter what it takes, we ride home together.
Brian Andreas
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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.
John Lennon
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I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon
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He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
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It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
Nicole Richie
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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
Oprah Winfrey
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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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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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends
John Churton Collins
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
Dorothy Parker
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.
Dorothy Parker
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Louisa May Alcott
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
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True friends are like diamonds " bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Even More Friendship Quotes
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We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
William Arthur Ward
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
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I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
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You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
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Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.
Charles M. Schulz
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Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it'll always get you the right ones
John Lennon
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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
James Patterson
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To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Sophocles
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
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Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend.
Marian Anderson
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Walter Benjamin
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The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Homer
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins
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I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.
Miranda July
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil Gibran
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Pearl S. Buck
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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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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, the very meaning of one's soul.
Edith Wharton
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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward
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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.
Maya Angelou
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
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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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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
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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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Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
William Shakespeare
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There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
Konrad Lorenz
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Zig Ziglar
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Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
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A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.
Lauren Conrad
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung
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Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus
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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
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The friend in 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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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.
Jack Kornfield
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I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
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Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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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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The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
William Penn
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle
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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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For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
Alistair Cooke
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.
Jon Katz
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
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Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.
Jack Layton
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If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.
Christopher Morley
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Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
Harlan Ellison
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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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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.
Douglas Pagels
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He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.
Abraham Kuyper
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Francoise Sagan
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
George Eliot
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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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i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
Eddie Vedder
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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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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr
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I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.
Carlos P. Romulo
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I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
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What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Trey Parker
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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Alexander Eastman
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The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
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Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Garry Shandling
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
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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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.
James Boswell
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Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
Aristotle
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Arthur Bloch
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Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
Simone Weil
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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao Tzu
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Newspapers should have no friends.
Joseph Pulitzer
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
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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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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese
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It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
William Hazlitt
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Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
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A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
William Hazlitt
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
Joyce Brothers
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca
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The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other
Ashleigh Brilliant
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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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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown
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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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Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
David Frost
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
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You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein
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In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
Solon
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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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I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Maya Angelou
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson
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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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No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
Gene Hill
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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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She's always there for me when I need her; She's my best friend; she's just my everything.
Ashley Olsen
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius
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No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
Harold Pinter
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.
Katherine Mansfield
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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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The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
Edward Everett Hale
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
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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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We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey
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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt
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One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
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The monster was the best friend I ever had.
Boris Karloff
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No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Mauriac
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
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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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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
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I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
Euripides
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We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.
David Tyson Gentry
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
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To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas
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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
Joseph Brodsky
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
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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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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
Robert Browning
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Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Dinah Shore
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning Chu
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell
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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Kenneth Branagh
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote
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Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
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There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
Bing Crosby
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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.
Herman Melville
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. Jerome
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
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Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake
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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.
Cornelia Otis Skinner
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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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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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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 Nouwen
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Ouida
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jessamyn West
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
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I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.
Pam Brown
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
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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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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.
Walker Percy
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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
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A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Charles Evans Hughes
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Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
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God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
Addison Mizner
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A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.
Benjamin Franklin
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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 on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.
Marilynne Robinson
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He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de la Bruyere
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
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I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children"ツ杯hey are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.
Mary Tyler Moore
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Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
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It's hard, but sometimes it is better to have no friends for a time than to have the wrong friends. The wrong group can lead you down all kinds of paths you really don't want to be on. And retracing your steps can be a long and hard journey
Sean Covey
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It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton Fadiman
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Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Are we not like two volumes of one book?
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
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I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
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It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.
David Sedaris
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Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
Solon
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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Brooks Adams
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We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton
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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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Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child
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Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
Henry Drummond
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You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
Carl Icahn
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
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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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The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elisabeth Foley
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He who hath many friends hath none.
Aristotle
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
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Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.
James Russell Lowell
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I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Charles R. Swindoll
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
William Penn
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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
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The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
John Mason Brown
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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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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss
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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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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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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
Peter De Vries
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
Emily Giffin
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One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.
Ann Landers
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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Leon Uris
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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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Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Gloria Naylor
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
Charles Peguy
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The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
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Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
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There was 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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
William Blake
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
Samuel Johnson
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
August Strindberg
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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
Baltasar Gracian
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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
Marge Piercy
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Alice Walker
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Every man is like the company he wont to keep.
Euripides
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyere
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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.
Mary Renault
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Of my friends I am the only one left.
Terence
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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr
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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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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
Brenda Ueland
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.
Linda Ellerbee
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Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.
Bill Withers
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
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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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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Robert Burton
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To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
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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 lead.
Charles M. Schwab
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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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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Friends are God's apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill
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That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
Charles Bukowski
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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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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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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
Voltaire
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Phillips Brooks
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
Aristotle
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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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Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown
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If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Rupert Brooke
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
Aristotle
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For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.
Indian Proverb
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
Edward Young
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
David Nicholls
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
Francis Quarles
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Life without a friend is like death without a witness
Spanish Proverb
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust
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I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.
Cher
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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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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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish
John Lyly
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He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
Eddie Cantor
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Izaak Walton
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Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
Dodie Smith
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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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Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
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Friendship is the bread of the heart.
Mary Russell Mitford
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I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
Emily Kimbrough
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner
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A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.
Louis Sabin
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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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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
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Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
Ted Rall
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
Samuel Pepys
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Sallust
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In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
Maria Edgeworth
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell
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"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Mignon McLaughlin
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The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
Beverley Mitchell
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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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If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
Andreas Capellanus
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
John Travolta
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Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.
Norman Douglas
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
George Santayana
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
Andrew Sullivan
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
George Eliot
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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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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
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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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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
Thomas Jefferson
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Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell
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You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
Tom Bodett
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship 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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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash
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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman
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Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos
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If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.
Bill Withers
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There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
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A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
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Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
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...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.
Samuel Johnson
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The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Marjorie Holmes
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The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
Robert E. Sherwood
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust
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Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Ouida
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To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.
Elizabeth Bibesco
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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo di Cavour
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
George MacDonald
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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Howard Thurman
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal
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Follow your heart, and you perish.
Margaret Laurence
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Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie Colwin
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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 be.
Elizabeth Fishel
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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
William Shakespeare
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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.
Joe E. Lewis
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Confidence is the only bond of friendship.
Publilius Syrus
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Barbara Bush
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An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.
Ibycus
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There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
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All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Jacques Delille
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
Benjamin Harrison
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A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart-better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?
James Hogg
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The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Maya Angelou
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Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
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We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus
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Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
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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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Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at first speech are old
friends.
Mary Catherwood
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I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.
George Chapman
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one may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion ...
Margaret Cavendish
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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker
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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.
Lewis E. Lawes
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
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Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
Eustache Deschamps
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
Francine du Plessix Gray
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To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
John Churton Collins
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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You can't eat your friends and have them too
Budd Schulberg
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Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
Edna Buchanan
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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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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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Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....
Jeremy Taylor
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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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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
Buddha
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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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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Socrates
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
Anita Brookner
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
Alexander Pope
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True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan
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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
Merle Shain
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Friendship either finds or makes equals.
Publilius Syrus
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So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
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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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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends
Czech Proverb
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Those who can't give friendship will rarely receive it and never hold it.
Dagobert D. Runes
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If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.
Billie Holiday
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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
David Grayson
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
Dean Koontz
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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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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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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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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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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
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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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How to Win Friends and Influence People.
Dale Carnegie
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Who friendship with a knave hath made, Is judged a partner in the trade.
John Gay
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The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
Spanish Proverb
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Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
Dr. Seuss
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.
Marcel Proust
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
Spanish Proverb
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Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
Charles Caleb Colton
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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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The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
Margaret Cho
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Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
John Boyle O'Reilly
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What I cannot love, I overlook.
Anais Nin
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The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
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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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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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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
Joseph Addison
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Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Joseph Addison
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Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard
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Always, Sir, set a 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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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Samuel Johnson
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
William Hazlitt
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Ogden Nash
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The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaine
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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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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
Oscar Wilde
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Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
Thomas Fuller
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The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Kahlil Gibran
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True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert Lynd
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A relationship is like a rose,
How long it lasts, no one knows;
Love can erase an awful past,
Love can be yours, you'll see at last;
To feel that love, it makes you sigh,
To have it leave, you'd rather die;
You hope you've found that special rose,
'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Rob Cella
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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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Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous
Ambrose Bierce
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
Ovid
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
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You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Ani DiFranco
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Henry David Thoreau
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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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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
Henry David Thoreau
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
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A true friend is one soul divided into two people.
Aristotle
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Joseph Addison
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Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
Latin Proverb
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
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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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Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe
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Though friendship is not quick to burn it is explosive stuff.
May Sarton
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
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Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot
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Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them.
Cyril Connolly