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Friends and friendship

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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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.

Penn, William

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Hsieh, Tehyi

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

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Your friendship is your needs answered.

Proverb, Danish

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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.

Frazier, S. M.

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Wycherley, William

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The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

Hitopadesa

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.

Joubert, Joseph

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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

Randolf, G.

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Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

Bacon, Francis

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Ebers, George

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

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Bourne, Randolph S.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Home, Henry

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

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Weldon, Fay

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Make friends before you need them

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Proverb, Greek

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

Machado, Aaron

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To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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