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FRIENDSHIP QUOTES

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* ...to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!
-- Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

 

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
-- George Eliot

* "The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

* The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
-- Epicurus (3rd century B.C.)

"Friends show their love in times of trouble..."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives."
-- Euripides (408 B.C.)

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
-- St. Francis De Sales

* Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
-- Benjamin Franklin

"A good friend is my nearest relation."
-- Thomas Fuller (1732)

"My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private."
-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

* "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry

"Your friend is your needs answered."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
-- Kahil Gibran.

"Let your best be for your friend..."
-- Kahil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."
-- Baltasar Gracian (1647)

 

"Friendship needs no words..." -- Dag Hammarskjold

* Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
-- Dag Hammarskjold

 

"Friends are the sunshine of life."
-- John Hay (1871)

Friendship reaches well above all currency.
-- Robert M. Hensel

"The best mirror is an old friend."
--George Herbert

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.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
-- Homer (9th century B.C.)

"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure."
-- Jewish saying

"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."
-- Samuel Johnson

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
-- Samuel Johnson

 

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