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Friendship Quotes
"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."
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"Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the horizon, or that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, bur raise it to that standard. That great, defying eye, that scornful beauty of his mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance."
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"Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives."
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"With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am."
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"As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places."
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"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
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"In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he conceals his defects behind a mask of social convention; but we grow so intimate with him that he throws the mask aside, get to know him so well that he doesn't trouble any longer to pretend; then you'll discover a being of such meanness, of such trivial nature, of such weakness, of such corruption, that you'd be aghast if you didn't realize that that was his nature and it was just as stupid to condemn him as to condemn the wolf because he ravens or the cobra because he strikes."
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"It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."
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"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title."
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"It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man."
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"If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend."
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"You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept."
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"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life."
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"Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is."
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
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"It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship."
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"We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat."
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"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."
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"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
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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."
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"The best friend you will ever find is you. Love yourself with joy and fill your heart with bliss and happiness."
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"The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
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"In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?"
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"In times of adversity, you will realize who is there for you. The struggle is real and those who walk with you with love, are honorable true friends. Be thankful for the friends and loved ones you've got."
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"Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts."
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
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"Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
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"Most men's friendships are too inarticulate."
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"Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up."
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"What if someone picks on me?" I askedThen I'll pick on them".What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said."
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"Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham friends reap the benefits of associating with a valuable person and mimic signs of warmth in an effort to become valued themselves. But when a little rain falls, they are nowhere in sight."
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"Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends."
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"But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needles to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation."
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"I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me."
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"This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die."
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"In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder."
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"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
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"The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye."
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"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
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"Friends are like bras, attached near your heart for support. Foes are like panties, deported, every now and then, when they get dirty."
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"I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you."
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"Tyson put his hand on Grover s shoulder "I -I will go with him."I couldn t believe I was hearing this. "Tyson are you sure?"The big guy nodded. "Goat boy needs help. We will find the god person. I am not like Hephaestus. I trust friends."
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"In order to have friends, you must first be one."
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"Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument."
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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."
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."
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