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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
" Elbert Hubbard "
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A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have.
" Unknown "
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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."
" Charles Kingsley "
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Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
" Dr Samuel Johnson "
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Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
"Socrates"
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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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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
"Unknown"
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
"Martin Luther King"
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"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
" Robert Louis Stevenson "
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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.
" Miguel de Cervantes"
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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.
" William Hazlitt "
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
"William Hazlitt"
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
"James Boswell"
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A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.
"Doris Wild Helmering"
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A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
"Unknown"
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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
"Fr. Jerome Cummings"
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
" Elbert Hubbard "
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A friend loveth at all times.
" Bible Proverb"
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
" Lord Byron "
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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.
" Unknown "
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
" Anita Brookner "
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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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Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
"Samuel Johnson"
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
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Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there ?
" Richard Bach "
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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.
" Seneca "
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
" Paul Aubuchon "
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Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
" Letty Cottin Pogrebin "
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Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
" Erica Mann Jong "
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Friends show their love in times of trouble...
" Euripides "
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Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
"David Pratt"
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
"Seneca"
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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 is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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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!
" Charles Eastman "
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Friendship is love with understanding.
" Unknown "
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Friendship is Love, without his wings.
" Lord Byron "
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Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.
" Jane Austen "
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
" Elie Wiesel "
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Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.
"Stephen Ambrose"
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
"Hilaire Belloc"
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Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.
" S. M. Frazier "
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
" Bible Proverb "
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
"La Rochefoucauld"
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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
"Fran"
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
"Harriet Beecher Stowe"
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I have always laid it down as a maxim --and found it justified by experience --that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex --but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
"Lord Byron"
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
"Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort"
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
" George Eliot "
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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
" Janina Atkins "
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I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
" Nelson Boswell "
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I loved my friend.
"Langston Hughes"
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
"Michel de Montaigne"
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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
" F. Scott K. Fitzgerald "
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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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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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I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
"Unknown"
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
"Sydney Smith"
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
"George Jean Nathan"
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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
"Thomas p Kempis"
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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
" Thomas Kempis "
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Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
" Unknown "
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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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Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
"Gelett Burgess"
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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love
"Charles Peguy"
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Love is temporary...but friends are forever.
"Kelly Wheeler"
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
"Martin Luther King, Jr"
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Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.
"Unknown"
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My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
"Sidonie Gabrielle Colette"
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Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
"Samuel Johnson"
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No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling that your life is different and that your capacity to love and care has miraculously been enlarged with out any effort on your part. It's like having a tiny apartment and somebody moves in with you. But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, the space expands, and you discover rooms you never knew you had until your friend moved in with you.
"Steve Tesich"
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
"Thomas Fuller"
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
"Jean de La Fontaine"
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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.
"Unknown"
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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
"Robert Louis Stevenson"
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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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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
"Grace Noll Crowell"
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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
"George T. Hewitt"
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The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
"Hubert Humphrey"
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
"Simone Weil"
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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
"John Henry Newman"
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The verb "to love" in Persian is "to have a friend." "I love you" translated literally is "I have you as a friend," and "I don't like you" simply means "I don't have you as a friend.
"Shusha Guppy"
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
"William Hazlitt"
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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.
"William Penn"
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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.
"Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon"
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"Franoise d'Aubign Maintenon"
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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.
"Unknown "
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
"Hillaire Belloc"
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There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.
"Edith Wharton"
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This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love
"Unknown"
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Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives.
"Isabel Norton"
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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.
"Paul Aubuchon"
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Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.
" Unknown "
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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.
"Margaret Guenther"
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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
"Jean Paul Richter"
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"We need not think alike to love alike.
"Francis David"
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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.
"Jess Moody"
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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.
"Fran"
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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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When the time comes for friends to part, love will be the bride, from heart to heart.
"Unknown"
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You know who I always depend on? Not strangers, not friends. The telephone! That's my best friend. I seldom write letters, but I love calling friends, especially late at night, when I can't sleep.
"Marilyn Monroe"
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
"Kahlil Gibran"
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