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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
– Maria Shriver
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
– Henry B. Adams
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
– Joseph Addison
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Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
– Tim Allen
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I invite you, if your parents will let you, to come to our country, the best time being this summer. You will find out about our country, meet with your contemporaries, visit an international children's camp - Artek - on the sea. And see for yourself: in the Soviet Union - everyone is for peace and friendship among peoples.
– Yuri Andropov
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
– Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
– Aristotle
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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
– Jane Austen
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
– Honore de Balzac
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
– Henry Walter Bates
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
– Hilaire Belloc
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Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
– Robert Blair
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
– William Blake
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy-for friendship's sake.
– William Blake
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
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Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
– Bill Bradley
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
– Charlotte Bronte
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
– Emily Bronte
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
– Anita Brookner
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
– Anita Brookner
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.
– John Mason Brown
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Now, there's been a persistent legend and a lot of slogans, and the formation of societies for the fostering of Franco-American friendship, which have had some effect, but there is a strong admiration in this country for the culture of France, and generally speaking I think the French find the Americans have been stout supporters of them in many of their periods of distress.
– David Bruce
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Where fall the tears of love the rose appears, and where the ground is bright with friendship's tears, Forget-me-not, and violets, heavenly blue, spring glittering with the cheerful drops like dew.
– William C. Bryant
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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.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
– Richard Burton
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
– Samuel Butler
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Friendship is Love without his wings!
– Lord Byron
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
– Fawn M. Brodie
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
– Pam Brown
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
– Albert Camus
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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
– Truman Capote
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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If our fellow men could be aware of our opinions about them, love, friendship, and devotion would be forever erased from the dictionaries; and if we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
– Emile M. Cioran
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I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
– Jean Cocteau
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adversity.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
– Confucius
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Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
– Russell Crowe
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Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
– Lincoln Chafee
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
– Chin-Ning Chu
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Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
– Laurie Colwin
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No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
– Francis Marion Crawford
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No sex between Mulder and Scully! Only deep friendship. People thinking there's more than that between us amuses me. With Gillian, we've created the illusion of romance.
– David Duchovny
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Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?
– Ronald Duncan
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
– Thomas A. Edison
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
– Jonathan Edwards
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We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
– George Eliot
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
– Epicurus
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Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
– John Evelyn
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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
– Clifton Paul Fadiman
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
– Miles Franklin
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The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
– Larry Flynt
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Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is notworth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practises untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance. Co-operation which needs consideration is a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
– Edward Gibbon
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Kahlil Gibran
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
– Warren Harding
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
– Jane Harrison
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
– William Hazlitt
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
– William Hazlitt
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
– George Herbert
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
– Edgar Watson Howe
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
– Edgar Watson Howe
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It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
– Elbert Hubbard
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry.
– Victor Hugo
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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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As a Muslim, I know that my faith reveres all monotheistic religions. It completes God's message to mankind to live together in friendship and dignity, at a time when Islam, Christianity and Judaism, in many parts of the world, present an image which is totally alien to the spirit in which they were meant: the teachings of God in terms of tolerance and mutual respect.
– King Hussein
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An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.
– Ibycus
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Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact the essence of man's value, no one is replacable. It is in this way, in this solitude, that he finds friendship and a friendly society, rather than the flock or the herd.
– Eugene Ionesco
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Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
– Washington Irving
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
– Max Jacob
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In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
– Dirk Kempthorne
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
– Charles Kingsley
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Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness.
– Lois L. Kaufman
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Ultimately, being a part of a team means competing, working, living and winning and losing together. And in the end, a teammate's nationality, his language, his taste in music or his religion aren't sources of division, but in fact mediums of greater friendship, understanding and success.
– Steve Kerr
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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
– Dean Koontz
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