Friendship Quotes - Page 25

• Every girl needs a bestfriend to
  help her laugh when she thinks
  she`ll never smile again

  Cassie Ventura

  Girl, Thinking, Laughing

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• Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Peaceful, Lazy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.243, Tyché

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• It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Kind, Audience

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.262, Baker Books

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• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friends, Praise, Admonish

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• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

  Alexander Pope

  Dear Friend, Absent, Stills

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.156

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• Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

  Katherine Philips

  Strong, Passion, Angel

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• You always think you could have done more. That's why you need a friend - to tell you you did all you could.

  Robert Breault

  Thinking, Needs, Done

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• We die as often as we lose a friend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Feelings, Dies, Loses

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• There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Demand, Honest, Great Friend

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.

  Sophocles

  Kindness, Return, Know How

  Sophocles (1872). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: In English Prose”, p.309

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

  Sophocles

  Love Is, Cast Away, One Love

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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• My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Design, Aspiration, Labor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love and friendship exclude each other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Love And Friendship

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• Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Taste, Intellect

  "The Characters, Or, the Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Nicholas Rowe and Theophrastus (Chapter V), 1688.

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• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Kindness

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• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  A.J. Cronin

  Circles, Routine, Social

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• Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Mother, Skills, Nurse

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• Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

  Paula Abdul

  Best Friend, Successful, People

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• That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Nature, Philosophical, Garden

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• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, War, Men

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• A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Laughter, Goes On

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• Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

  Anita Brookner

  Love, Accountability, Strategy

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• I can trust my friends... these people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

  Cher

  Trust, Encouragement, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  George Eliot

  Agreement, Delight, Cute Friendship

  George Eliot (1997). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.105, Wordsworth Editions

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• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

  Thomas Fuller

  True Friend, Share, More Than Friends

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