"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."

Young, Brigham on friends and friendship   

"To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two."

Douglas, Norman on friends and friendship
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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. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!"

Eastman, Charles Alexander on friends and friendship
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on friends and friendship
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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 on friends and friendship
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"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on friends and friendship
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half."

FeNelon, Francois on friends and friendship   

"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."

Dhammapada on friends and friendship
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on friends and friendship
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"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."

Connolly, Cyril on friends and friendship   

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."

Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock on friends and friendship
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"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 on friends and friendship
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"What is a friend? I will tell you it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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"Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend."

Crowell, Grace Noll on friends and friendship
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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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 on friends and friendship   

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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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. on friends and friendship   

"An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse."

Gay, John on friends and friendship
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"Who ceases to be a friend never was one."

Proverb, Greek on friends and friendship
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"To keep a new friend, never break with the old."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship   

"Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are."

Proverb, Russian on friends and friendship
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"It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"The best vitamin for making friends, B-1."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is like vitamins, we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements"

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Walker, Alice on friends and friendship
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"It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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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."

Grant, Ulysses S. on friends and friendship
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"Never deceive a friend."

Hipparchus on friends and friendship   

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"Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."

Hoffer, Eric on friends and friendship
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"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 on friends and friendship   

"When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are."

Johnson, Earvin ''Magic'' on friends and friendship
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"Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last."

Kempis, Thomas on friends and friendship   

"Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"Have no friends not equal to yourself."

Confucius on friends and friendship
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