Real Friends Quotes - Page 8

• Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

  Eustache Deschamps

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

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• Friends are the sunshine of life.

  John Hay

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  John Hay (1913). “Poems”

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• If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

  S. E. Hinton

  Friendship, Good Friend, Two Friends

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.28, Penguin

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• Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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• I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friendship, Giving, Might

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• A true friend is one who overlooks your failures
  and tolerates your success.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Friendship, Patience

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• A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

  Donna Roberts

  Best Friend, Friendship, Relationship

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• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, True Friend, Years

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• Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend
  Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Friendship, Men, Too Late

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1886). “In Bohemia”

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• Let your best be for your friend.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Real, Friends

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

  Charles Peguy

  Friendship, Real, Love Is

  "Basic Verities, Prose and Poetry" by Charles Peguy, translated by Ann and Julien Green, ("The Search for Truth"), 1943.

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• Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Friendship, Real, Heart

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• Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

  David Brenner

  Friendship, Best Friend, Memories

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• A joy shared is a joy doubled.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Real, Joy

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• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Friendship, Real, Self Respect

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Real, Enemy

  "What Will He Do With It?" Bk. III, Heading to Ch. XVII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 517), 1922.

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• A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

  Isak Dinesen

  Lonely, Real, House

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Friendship, Sorry, Real

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Curiosity, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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• I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kindness, Real, Calm

  Leigh Hunt (1850). “The Autobiography ... with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries”, p.98

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• When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Cheer, True Friend, Real

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.192

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• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

  Sydney Smith

  Love, Friendship, Happiness

  Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.178

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• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Friendship, Real, Scandal

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

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

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• There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dream, Real, Wish

  Jean de La Fontaine (1841). “Fables of La Fontaine”, p.82

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