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Friends and friendship

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

Yeats, William Butler

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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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.

Brault, Robert

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.

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

Epicurus

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb

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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

Byron, Lord

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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, 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 inertia.

James, William

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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

33.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Jerome, St.

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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

Hazlip, E.R.

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Often, I look out the window and wait. I see her as she comes and goes, to visit with everyone-it seems but me. I know that sometimes I'm not as friendly as I should be. But I'm scared- that people won't like me. So I hide in my shell. And talk to know one. But still... I wish they would notice that I am here. I need them. Please, somebody talk to me. I need a friend.

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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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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.

Adams, Henry Brooks

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy