Friendship Quotes - Page 5

• The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

  Cyril Connolly

  Respect, Lasts, Dignity

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Where there are friends there is wealth.

  Plautus

  Relationship, Real Friends, Family And Friends

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• A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

  A. A. Milne

  Honey, Pot, Winnie The Pooh Friend

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• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Best Friend, Real Friends, Faults

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• A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Dream, Love You, And Love

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1996). “Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship”, Rutledge Hill Press

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Positive, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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  What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

  Albert Pike

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  True Friend, Grief, Healing

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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  If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Life, Peace, Enemy

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• Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

  Epicurus

  Life, Relationship, Happiness

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• Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Book, Real Friends

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Relationship, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Perfection, Degrees, Highest

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Positive

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sex, Wedding Anniversary, Men

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Happiness, Happy, Sympathy

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• The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sympathy, Mean, Trying

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Blessed

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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• Do not save your loving speeches
  For your friends till they are dead;
  Do not write them on their tombstones,
  Speak them rather now instead.

  Anna Mickelson

  Inspirational, Death, Tombstone

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• Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

  Chris Bradford

  Love, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

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• Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pleasure, Higher

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.279

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• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Best Friend, Hope

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Eye

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Bff

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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