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Friendship Quotes

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
~ Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
~ Unknown

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~ Albert Schweitzer

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than
you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
~ Dale Carnegie

Friendship is like a bank account; you cannot continue to draw on it without making a deposit.
~ Nicole Beale

A friend is a gift you give yourself.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
~ Pearl S. Buck

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends’ lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
~ Nancy Reagan

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.
~ Flavia Weedn

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
~ Richard Bach

A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
~ Frank Crane

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
~ Edgar Watson Howe

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
~ Albert Camus

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
~ Ethel Barrymore

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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
~ Arnold H. Glasgow

The road to a friend’s house is never long.
~ Danish Proverb

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
~ Thomas Fuller

It is a sweet thing, friendship, a dear balm,A happy and auspicious bird of calm…
~ P. B. Shelly

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
~ Unknown

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Friendship without self

Friendship without self - interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
~ James F. Byrnes
Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying moods.
~ Esther M. Clark
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his [...]

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A friend loves at all times

A friend loves at all times…
~ Proverbs 17:17
Friendship is the only cement
that will ever hold the world together.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Treat your friends as you do your pictures,
and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that [...]

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”
~ Golda Meir
“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”
~ Mencius
“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
~ Wilson Mizner
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
Stay is a charming word in [...]

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