Friendship

Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions,
the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,
the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds....Jeremy Taylor.
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"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."
--Helen Keller
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To have a good friend is one of the highest delights of life.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult
to leave, and impossible to forget....G. Randolf.
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those
who are throughout persuaded of each other's worth....Robert Southey.
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are
loved for ourselves. Victor Hugo
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
--St. Thomas Aquinas.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise
this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but
few discover. Joseph Addison
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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty,
love, do not require coupons. G.T. HewittIf
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we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must
love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.
--Charlotte Bronte
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. like love It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value
to survival. C.S. Lewis friendship qoutes
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new
world is born. Anais Nin
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Your friends are very precious things;
Their love is like the rarest gem.
But friends are hard to find and keep
Unless you are a friend to them. Ann Cragg
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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 Wilson
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King
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Friendship is love with
understanding... Proverb.
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"I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroken;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."
-- Longfellow
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Samuel Johnson