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Friendship Quotes

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"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
George Eliot
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
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"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
Gustave Flaubert
"A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."
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"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."
Will Durant
"Grow strong, my comrade that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more."
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"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm."
Augustine Birrell
"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm."
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"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
W. H. Auden
"Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality."
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"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
Margaret Bourke-White
"Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you."
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"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
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"Prosperity is full of friends."
Euripides
"Prosperity is full of friends."
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"No one has a closest friend in Hollywood."
Sheilah Graham
"No one has a closest friend in Hollywood."
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"Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed."
Quintus Ennius
"Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed."
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"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends."
Otto Hermann Kahn
"As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends."
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
Walt Whitman
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
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""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
Louisa May Alcott
""Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
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"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."
John Dos Passos
"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."
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"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
Richard Bach
"Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
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"You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends..."
Virginia Alison
"You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends..."
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"All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose."
Dave Eggers
"All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose."
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"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."
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"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still."
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"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
Logan Pearsall Smith
"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."
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"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."
Joan Crawford
"If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst."
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"I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends."
Elizabeth David
"I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends."
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"Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend."
Theocritus
"Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend."
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"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
Virginia Woolf
"I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street."
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"O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics."
Quintus Ennius
"O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics."
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"Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone."
Alexandra Bracken
"Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone."
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"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"
Anna Letitia Barbauld
"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"
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"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."
James Lee Burke
"When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well."
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"Today did take the time to say: 'I believe in myself,' at least 20 times today? You can never say it too much."
Mark F. LaMoure
"Today did take the time to say: 'I believe in myself,' at least 20 times today? You can never say it too much."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
George Washington
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
Boris Johnson
"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
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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
"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."
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"There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else."
Erich Maria Remarque
"There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else."
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"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 Alexander Eastman
"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!"
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"It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists."
Curt Siodmak
"It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists."
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"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection."
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble."
Euripides
"Friends show their love in times of trouble."
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"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends."
Arlene Francis
"Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends."
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"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."
John Howe
"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."
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"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."
Euripides
"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."
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"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
Margaret Walker
"Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go."
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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
"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."
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"Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing."
Richard Parks Bland
"Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing."
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"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
Francis Bacon
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
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"As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like."
Natalie Gulbis
"As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like."
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"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow."
Simon Dach
"Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
George Dennison Prentice
"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Lord Chesterfield
"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
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"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
Gertrude Stein
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."
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"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
Margaret Lee Runbeck
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
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