Friendship Quotes - Page 7

• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Best Friend, Self, Soul

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Civility, Ceremony, Poor Richard

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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

  Best Friend, Memories, Laughter

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Best Friend, Hope

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• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

  Stendhal

  Illusion

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.177, Booklassic

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• Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Marriage, Grief

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.484, eKitap Projesi

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• Nothing wounds a friend like a want of confidence.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Want, Wounds

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• There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Dog, Money, Funny Best Friend

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Thee, Company

  "Don Quixote".

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• Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

  Robert Blair

  Sweet, Soul, Mysterious

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.8

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

  Len Wein

  Best Friend, Patience, Clever

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

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• Let your best be for your friend.

  Khalil Gibran

  Real, Friends, Real Friends

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

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• Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Fountain, Positive Friendship

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Nature, Honesty

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Bff

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  Confucius

  Trust, Betrayal, Deceived Us

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665-1678.

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Relationship, Inspirational Love

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Mankind, Usefulness

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero: On the Following Subjects, Viz. I. Religion. II. Man. III. Conscience. IV. The Passions. V. Wisdom. VI. Probity. VII. Eloquence. VIII. Friendship. IX. Old Age. X. Death. XI. Scipio's Dream. XII. Miscellaneous Thoughts”, p.213

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason

  Mason Cooley

  Funny Love, Sex, Funny Relationship

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• Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Real Friends, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

  Steig Larsson

  Best Friend, Trust, Respect

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Depressing, Betrayal

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.9, eBookIt.com

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• She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

  Toni Morrison

  Real Friends, Men, Order

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 01, 2013

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