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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Friendship

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, Real

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Gloria Naylor

  Friendship, Letting Go, Art

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.56, Penguin

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Love, Friendship, Cute Best Friend

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
  and tolerates your success.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Friendship, Patience

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Success, Inspirational Love

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Law

  Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

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• The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

  Mike Johanns

  Government, Goal, President

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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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

  Friendship, Best Friend, Kindness

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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

  Friendship, Real Friends, Treasure

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

  Mencius

  Friendship, Brother, Sibling

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• A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Friendship, Relationship, Heart

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• Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Friendship, Real Friends, My Best Friend

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• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

  Ben Jonson

  Friendship, Positive, Happiness

  'Cynthia's Revels' (1600) act 3, sc. 2

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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.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 09, 2015

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Relationship, Philosophical

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• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Real Friends, Adversity

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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, Real

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Two, Three

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Friendship, Best Friend, Heart

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Friendship, Father, Real

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest" by Philibert Joseph Roux, translated by Isabel Florence Hapgood, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Part 9, LIV, 1886.

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