Quotes about friends and friendship

"May I always be worth of my friends."

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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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"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

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"The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring."

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

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"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."

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"Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you."

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

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"When you need someone to comfort you, a friend is near"

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

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"Friendship is a precious gift. To give at Christmas time. A Cherished gift, a treasured gift that lasts through all time."

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

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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."

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

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"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding."

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"Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how."

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

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

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

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"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."

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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."

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

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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

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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?"

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"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter."

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"The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend."

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"The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities."

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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

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"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

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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."

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"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."

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

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"Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it"

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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."

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

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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."

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"You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing..."

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

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"Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?"

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