Real Friends Quotes - Page 13

• How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

  Drake

  Girl, Real, Lying

  Song: Cameras, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

  Wise, Real, Choices

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• The only rose without thorns is friendship.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Friendship, Real, Rose

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• Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
  God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
  It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
  Everyone can have a friend,
  Who himself knows how to be a friend.

  Christoph August Tiedge

  Pain, Real, Joy

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• When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

  Edvard Grieg

  Real, Mean, Young Friends

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• Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Friendship, Real, Intelligent

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.267, OUP Oxford

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• No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Real, Successful, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Real, Character, Weight

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• Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Love And Friendship, And Love

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• The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Real, Who Cares

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

  Ovid

  Friendship, Real, Names

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

  William Penn

  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

  William Penn

  Real, Home, Heart

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.132

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• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Exercise, Men

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• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Long

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• Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

  Catiline

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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• A hug is the perfect gift, one size fits all, everyone likes them and no-one cares if it is given back.

  Natalie

  Best Friend, Real, Perfect

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• Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

  Kathryn Hulme

  Real, Adversity, Tests

  Kathryn Hulme, Edward Streeter, Helen Howe, Frank O'Rourke, Winston Graham (1956). “The Nun's Story, Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, The Success, The Diamond Hitch, The Sleeping Partner”

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• Friendship is essentially a partnership.

  Aristotle

  Love, Friendship, Family

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• A real friend's got your back, while the fake ones are sticking knives in it.

  Unknown

  Real, Fake, Got Your Back

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Hands

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• What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relationship, Honesty, Yoga

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• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Advice, Shade

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