Friendship Quotes - Page 14

• He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Best Friend, God, Pushing

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• The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

  Harriet Lerner

  True Friend, Vision, Wonderful

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Patience, True Friend

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• Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

  Hugh Prather

  Mistake, Support, Clear

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Sweet, Money, Inspirational Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lay Morals".

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• People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

  C. S. Lewis

  People, Should, Interest

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• Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny Best Friend, Funny Friend, Love Is

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• But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Being Happy, Hope

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.28, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Inspiring

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Real Friends, Night, Light

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspiring, Funny Best Friend, Real Friends

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

  Confucius

  Men, Truthful, Contracts

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• When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

  Anatole Broyard

  Advice, Being Sad, Radiance

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• Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

  Joe Cocker

  Best Friend, Song, Real Friends

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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

  Real Friends, Secret, Insightful

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• A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
  One should our interests and our passions be,
  My friend must hate the man that injures me.

  Homer

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Homer (1813). “The Iliad”, p.220

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• Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny Friend, Thyself, Great Friendship

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• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Real Friends, Wings

  'L'Amitiè est l'amour sans ailes'

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• He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Respect, Ornaments, Dignity

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.203

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• I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Lots Of Friends, Don't Trust

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2009). “The Angel's Game: The Cemetery of Forgotten”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Should, Acquaintance

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1755)

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• Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

  Khalil Gibran

  Real Friends, Boards, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wise, Wisdom, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 18, 2015

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