"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 on Friends and Friendship
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"He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Thoreau, Henry David on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on Friends and Friendship
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"Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."

Kaufman, Lois L. on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on Friends and Friendship
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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."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love."

Wastholm, Peter on Men and Women
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

Disney, Walt on Entertainment
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on Hope
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on Hope
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on Hope
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De on Love
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"Every business is built on friendship."

Penney, J. C. (James Cash) on Business
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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."

Lewis, C. S. on Friends and Friendship
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"It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship."

Thayer, Mary Dixon on Friends and Friendship
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Marriage
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"Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Wilde, Oscar on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on Friends and Friendship
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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. on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits."

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Thoreau, Henry David on Home
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"The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it."

Holz, Julie on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives."

Younger, Dumas The on Friends and Friendship
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"Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements"

Unknown, Source on Friends and Friendship
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"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two."

Swetchine, Anne Sophie on Friends and Friendship
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"Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall."

Chambless, David on Love
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"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job."

Sarnoff, David on Enjoyment
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"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Jealousy
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"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus on Love
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"We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."

Freud, Sigmund on Love
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on Infatuation
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"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on Happiness
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on Infatuation
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"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Love
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"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on Love
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"Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Love
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