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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.
Anonymous
5.0 · 43 votes · 147 reads
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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
Anonymous
3.0 · 7 votes · 44 reads
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Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
Tennessee Williams
PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century
3.8 · 50 votes · 171 reads
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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.
Charles Dickens
NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century
4.0 · 47 votes · 59 reads
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
3.2 · 52 votes · 17 reads
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May I always be worth of my friends.
Anonymous
3.2 · 19 votes · 57 reads
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
John Ruskin
WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century
4.9 · 52 votes · 10 reads
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Lord Chesterfield
PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century
4.8 · 12 votes · 156 reads
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century
3.4 · 28 votes · 99 reads
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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracián
WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century
3.3 · 28 votes · 150 reads
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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 exempl
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.2 · 29 votes · 134 reads
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No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Green Ingersoll
PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century
4.6 · 30 votes · 112 reads
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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy a
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.3 · 24 votes · 30 reads
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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
NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century
3.6 · 23 votes · 125 reads
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
4.1 · 5 votes · 75 reads
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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 Brooks Adams
NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century
4.0 · 12 votes · 25 reads
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC
3.8 · 57 votes · 190 reads
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.7 · 36 votes · 42 reads
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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 G. Bulwer-Lytton
PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century
4.7 · 46 votes · 20 reads
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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott
EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century
3.3 · 15 votes · 185 reads
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
WriterBritish1819 · 19th century
3.7 · 46 votes · 107 reads
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
4.8 · 51 votes · 134 reads
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Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
Jean de La Fontaine
PoetFrench1621 · 17th century
3.1 · 10 votes · 189 reads
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Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus
WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC
4.1 · 33 votes · 184 reads
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Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.
Anonymous
4.6 · 9 votes · 25 reads
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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
Charles Lamb
EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century
3.7 · 59 votes · 3 reads
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Short judgments make long friends.
Proverb
Anonymous
4.9 · 33 votes · 128 reads
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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
Anonymous
4.7 · 12 votes · 35 reads
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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 Green Ingersoll
PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century
3.3 · 33 votes · 61 reads
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Vincent van Gogh
PainterDutch1853 · 19th century
3.7 · 26 votes · 153 reads
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Spying among friends is never acceptable.
Angela Merkel
PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century
4.0 · 49 votes · 80 reads
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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Louisa May Alcott
AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century
3.4 · 28 votes · 193 reads
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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
Wentworth Dillon
PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century
4.7 · 47 votes · 82 reads
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Francesco Petrarch
PoetItaly1034 · 11th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 122 reads
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The endearing elegance of female friendship.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.0 · 23 votes · 163 reads
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian proverb
Arabian
3.4 · 17 votes · 57 reads
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
4.4 · 19 votes · 8 reads
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.7 · 50 votes · 139 reads
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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
Joseph Addison
PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century
4.1 · 6 votes · 126 reads
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The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.
Anonymous
4.1 · 15 votes · 164 reads
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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.
Anonymous
4.8 · 52 votes · 149 reads
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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
4.8 · 58 votes · 102 reads
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The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.
Jewish proverb
Jewish
3.9 · 7 votes · 34 reads
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mahatma Gandhi
LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century
4.0 · 28 votes · 16 reads
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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.
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century
4.5 · 45 votes · 106 reads
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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
PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century
3.1 · 51 votes · 183 reads
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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
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.5 · 11 votes · 154 reads
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.8 · 16 votes · 95 reads
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
3.2 · 9 votes · 154 reads
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
William Butler Yeats
PoetIrish1865 · 19th century
4.1 · 13 votes · 142 reads
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The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.
Anonymous
3.8 · 57 votes · 104 reads
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.3 · 45 votes · 138 reads
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.8 · 47 votes · 1 reads
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
3.7 · 9 votes · 7 reads
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.1 · 32 votes · 161 reads
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
3.3 · 45 votes · 0 reads
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
5.0 · 57 votes · 124 reads
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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.
Buddha
LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC
4.5 · 41 votes · 158 reads
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The time to make friends is before you need them.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.0 · 23 votes · 70 reads
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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century
3.5 · 11 votes · 138 reads
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please -that is, as they please or displease us.
William Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
3.1 · 41 votes · 174 reads
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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 Faulkner
WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century
4.3 · 61 votes · 186 reads
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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century
4.8 · 51 votes · 17 reads
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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 James
PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century
3.2 · 36 votes · 151 reads
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There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas de Quincey
AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century
3.2 · 18 votes · 128 reads
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There is no friend as loyal as a book
Ernest Hemingway
WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century
4.7 · 63 votes · 71 reads
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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.
Anonymous
4.1 · 7 votes · 123 reads
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Blake
PainterBritish1757 · 18th century
4.7 · 28 votes · 58 reads
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.4 · 23 votes · 180 reads
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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
Will Rogers
ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century
3.3 · 21 votes · 41 reads
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To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.
Anonymous
5.0 · 52 votes · 141 reads
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To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century
4.0 · 54 votes · 12 reads
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To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.0 · 59 votes · 57 reads
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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Thomas Hobbes
PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century
4.5 · 11 votes · 198 reads
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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle
PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC
3.8 · 54 votes · 8 reads
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus
WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC
3.3 · 55 votes · 28 reads
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
3.3 · 37 votes · 75 reads
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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
PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century
3.2 · 40 votes · 158 reads
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True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century
3.0 · 33 votes · 77 reads
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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Jonathan Swift
WriterIrish1667 · 17th century
4.4 · 61 votes · 160 reads
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