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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 allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  Octavia Butler

  Best Friend, Letting Go, Goodbye

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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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• How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

  William Rotsler

  Real, Eulogy, Wonderful

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• 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.

  E. W. Howe

  Relationship, Patience, True Friend

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• True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

  Theophrastus

  Best Friend, True Friend, Adversity

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Forgiveness, Two Friends, Long

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, True Friend, Real Friends

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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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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• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

  Richard Bach

  Happiness, Real Friends, Wish

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• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  Aristotle

  Life, True Friend, Comforting

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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

  Henry Van Dyke

  Relationship, True Friend, Heart

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• Everybody needs one essential friend.

  William Glasser

  Best Friend, Essentials, Needs

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

  William Hazlitt

  True Friend, Fear, Enemy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

  David Hume

  Spring, Philosophical, Real Friends

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• All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

  Taylor Swift

  Needs, Like Me, My Friends

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• Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real Friends, Weight, Lost Friend

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• He makes no friend who never made a foe.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Military, No Friends, Made

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Lancelot and Elaine' (1859) l. 1080

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• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friends, Praise, Admonish

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• We die as often as we lose a friend.

  Publilius Syrus

  Feelings, Dies, Loses

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• Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Kindness

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Positive, Leadership

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• Opposition is true friendship.

  William Blake

  Artist, True Friendship, Opposition

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  A. A. Milne

  Best Friend, Bff, Forever

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• A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Song, Memories

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