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

Dickens, Charles on friends and friendship   

"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"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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"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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"Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that."

Edwards, Robert C. on friends and friendship   

"Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!"

Eliot, George on friends and friendship   

"Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."

Eliot, George on friends and friendship
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"Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up."

Eliot, George on friends and friendship   

"Friendship should be more than biting time can sever."

Eliot, T. S. on friends and friendship
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"To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life."

Ellis, Sarah on friends and friendship   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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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 on friends and friendship
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship   

"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend."

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"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."

Euripides on friends and friendship
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"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help."

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"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia."

Everage, Dame Edna on friends and friendship   

"... 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 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   

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

Ford, Henry on friends and friendship
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"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."

Foss, Sam Walter on friends and friendship   

"Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off."

Francis De Sales, St. on friends and friendship
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