Real Friends Quotes - Page 4

• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Virginia Woolf

  Best Friend, Friendship, Bff Forever

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.228, Collector's Library

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• I would not enter on my list of friends
  (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
  Yet wanting sensibility) the man
  Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

  William Cowper

  Real, Men, Feet

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 6 'The Winter Walk at Noon' l. 560

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Real, Existence

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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  Pietro Aretino

  Friendship, True Friend, Treasure

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• 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, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Gratitude, Real

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friendship, Best Friend, Belief

  Honore de Balzac (1884). “Cousin Pons”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

  Arlene Francis

  Friendship, Real, Trouble

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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

  Friendship, Secret, Insightful

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• Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Friendship, Best Friend

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.49, Delta

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• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Losing Friends, Making Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• True friends stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

  Joseph Addison

  Friendship, Real, Life Is

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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

  Sylvia Plath

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Community, Live For Others, True Friendship

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• Real friends stab you in the front.

  Jonathan Davis

  Friendship, Im Sorry, True Friend

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• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  Len Wein

  Friendship, Best Friend, Patience

  "1001 Affirmations" - by Herbert P. Windschitl - Poetry, 2003.

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Love

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

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• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

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• Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Adoption, Soul

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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