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• An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  True Love, Heart, Weather

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friends, Delight, World

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• I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

  Ana Monnar

  Mother, Jesus, Brother

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• But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Solitude, World

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.47, 谷月社

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• Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Lying, Grief

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• You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Real, Heart

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• Religion consists much in holy affection; but those exercises of affection which are most distinguishing of true religion are these practical exercises. Friendship between earthly friends consists much in affection; but those strong exercises of affection that actually carry them through fire and water for each other are the highest evidences of true friendship.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Exercise, Fire

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - II”, Lulu.com

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• A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ambition, Character, Adversity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.764, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• True friends will pick you up when you fall. The bad friends will have been the one who made you fall in the first place.

  Unknown

  Fall, One Line, One Line Friendship

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• A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second an stops the third.

  Unknown

  Tears, One Line, One Line Friendship

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• A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.

  Unknown

  Strong, Heart, Long

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• I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.

  Unknown

  Distance, One Line, True Friendship

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• A true friend is someone you can trust with all your secrets.

  Unknown

  Secret, One Line, One Line Friendship

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• A true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

  Unknown

  Heart, One Line, Interest

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• I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

  Nicole Anderson

  Couple, School, Gymnastics

  "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

  Diego Boneta

  Friends, Thinking, Important

  "Crush of the Week: Diego Boneta". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. January 24, 2011.

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• Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Mind Your Own Business, Religion

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.67, Anchor

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• Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sympathy, Giving, Soul

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

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• I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Stupid, Clothes, Sleepovers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.22, Macmillan

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• A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.

  Scott Dikkers

  Atheist, Atheism, Friends Forever

  Scott Dikkers (2009). “You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day”, p.69, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Real, Intuition, Needs

  Andrea Camilleri (2012). “Inspector Montalbano: The first three novels in the series”, p.449, Pan Macmillan

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• For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Looks, Good Book

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.411

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• True friends don't say good-bye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other.

  Unknown

  Memories, Absence, Friendship Memories

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  Exercise, Old Friends, Weight

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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