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“A good friend is a connection to life, a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
Advertising Executive, Author
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“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
Advice Columnist
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“A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.”
Founder Of Pennsylvania, United States
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“Some come and leave, fulfilling a single purpose; others, for a time or a season to teach us by sharing their experiences; and last, a select few who participate forever with relationships that endure through eternity.”
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“There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.”
Poet
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“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. ”
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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“Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
Novelist
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“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
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“Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.”
Novelist
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“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than our own.
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Novelist
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“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”
Clergyman, Author
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“Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.”
Scientist, Evangelist, Writer, Lecturer
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“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”
Novelist, Editor
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“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.”
Novelist, Editor
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“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.”
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Politician, Writer, Scientist
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“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity.”
Artist, Poet, Writer
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“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
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“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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“If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”
Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”
Clergyman, Writer
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.”
Writer, Theologian, Scholar
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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? I thought I was the only one.”
Writer, Theologian, Scholar
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“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
16th U.S. President
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“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
Novelist
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“We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.”
Prime Minister Of Israel
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”
Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.”
Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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“Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.”
32nd U.S. President
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“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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“Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”
U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another: People are friends in spots.”
Philosopher, Poet, Essayist, Novelist
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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Stoic Philosopher, Writer, Tutor
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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Roman Orator
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“Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves--and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.”
Novelist, U.S. Newspaper Columnist
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Writer, Humanitarian
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“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.”
Author
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“Friendship is love with understanding.”
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“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
Roman Statesman, Philosopher
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“Have no friends not equal to yourself.”
Philosopher
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“A friend is someone who reached for your hand and touched your heart.”
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“When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. ”
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“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
Catholic Priest, Author
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“We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.”
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“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Philosopher
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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend.”
Author And Philosopher
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“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'Sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.' I know I am very fortunate in that respect”
Writer, Theologian, Scholar
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