Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions,
the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,
the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....Jeremy Taylor.

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"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."

--Helen Keller

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To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult
to leave, and impossible to forget....G. Randolf.

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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those
who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth....Robert Southey.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved for ourselves. Victor Hugo

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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship

 --St. Thomas Aquinas.

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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

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty,
 love, do not require coupons. G.T. HewittIf

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 we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
 love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
-- Charlotte Bronte

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. like love It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival. C.S. Lewis friendship qoutes

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new
 world is born. Anais Nin

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Your friends are very precious things;
Their love is like the rarest gem.
But friends are hard to find and keep
Unless you are a friend to them.  Ann Cragg

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Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas Wilson

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 Bulwer-Lytton

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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King

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 Friendship is love with
understanding... Proverb.

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"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?
 

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroken;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Longfellow

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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."
-- Samuel Johnson

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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
-- La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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The rain may be falling hard outside,
But your smile makes it all alright.
I'm so glad that you're my friend.
I know our friendship will never end."
-- Robert Alan

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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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A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more.
A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and
share our innermost thoughts--deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or
our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share
your deepest thoughts and needs--without worry of being judged, criticized
or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on,
laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other.
That's why friends are friends....Bettie and Jennifer Leigh Youngs.

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
-- Pietro Aretino

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 (1537) The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln 

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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old

For as you were when first your eye I eyed,

Such seems your beauty still."

--Friendship quotations by William Shakespeare

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We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are."

--Desire-Joseph Mercier

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What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever."

--Axel Munthe

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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend."

--Robert Louis Stevenson

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