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Friends and friendship

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Jerome, St.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

White, Somers

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]

Bible

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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

Washington, George

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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We 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 kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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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.

Bennett, Arnold

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Brookner, Anita

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Wein, Len

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

Terence

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Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

Hazlip, E.R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please --that is, as they please or displease us.

Hazlitt, William

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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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 unbroken; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want.

Toast, Irish

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

40.

Friendship is Love without his wings!

Byron, Lord

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Epicurus

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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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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Faithful friends are gifts from heaven: Whoever finds one has found a treasure.