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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
– Dean Koontz
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Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
– Charles Lamb
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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.
– Ann Landers
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
– Bruce Lee
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
– C. S. Lewis
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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!
– C. S. Lewis
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C. S. Lewis
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Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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This trip is about friendship, being in the hills with good friends and focusing on everyone's goals and aspirations.
– Alex Lowe
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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
– Katherine Mansfield
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To all of our friends in Irish-America and beyond, we owe an enormous debt of gratitude. Whenever we needed your friendship and encouragement, you were there for us.
– Mary McAleese
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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
– Mignon McLaughlin
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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
– Mencius
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I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
– Debra Messing
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All lasting business is built on friendship.
– Alfred A. Montapert
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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
– Thomas Moore
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
– Hector Hugh Munro
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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
– Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Belize and the Republic of China in 1989, Taiwan has been good to Belize. Over the years, the ties of friendship have been strengthened through a dynamic technical agricultural mission and economic cooperation in the housing and infrastructural development, trade, investment and tourism promotion.
– Said Musa
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
– George Jean Nathan
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A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
– Anais Nin
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
– Austin O'Malley
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Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.
– Louis Orr
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
– Charles Peguy
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
– Francesco Petrarch
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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I see a montage of all the world's cultures and differences, beautifully distinct yet now entwined in a quilt of solidarity and friendship.
– William Porter Payne
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
– Francis Quarles
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller
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Love is friendship set on fire.
– Jeremy Taylor
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
– Jeremy Taylor
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
– Mark Twain
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It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.
– Mary Dixon Thayer
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The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is always limited.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
– Voltaire
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
– Simone Weil
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
– Orson Welles
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
– Oscar Wilde
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
– Oscar Wilde
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
– Woodrow Wilson
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My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
– John Woo
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
– William Wycherley
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
– J. Donald Walters
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Time for work - yet take much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
– George de Wilde
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
– Edward Young
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There’s a miracle of friendship that
dwells within the heart
And you don’t know how it happens
or where it gets its start
But the happiness it brings you
always gives a special lift
Any you realize that friendship
Is God’s most perfect gift.
– Anonymous
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
– Muhammad Ali
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Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence, I even hate (suffer me to say so) those duties of friendship which substitute propriety for interest, and circumspection for feeling. How shall I say it? I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.
– Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
– Joseph Addison
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
– Jane Austen
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
– Lawana Blackwell
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
– Kahlil Gibran
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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.
– Victor Hugo
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Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
– Ovid
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Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.
– French Proverb
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
– German Proverb
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When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
– Real Live Preacher
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
– Bertrand Russell
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
– Saint Jerome
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
– Sallust
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Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
– Sophocles
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
– Madame de Tencin
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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.
– George Washington
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Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
– Anne Lamott
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You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
– Joe Biden
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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
– Marilyn Hacker
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Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
– John Mayall
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Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
– Anna Freud
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
– Zhang Ziyi
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
– Eddie Murray
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
– Marlo Thomas
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What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
– Andrew Sullivan
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
– Arthur Ashe
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We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
– Dave Blood
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Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
– Hayao Miyazaki
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Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
– Barbara Bush
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
– St. Jerome
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
– Baltasar Gracian
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
– Henry David Thoreau
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