Real Friends Quotes - Page 18

• Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

  Amy Dickinson

  Real, Women, Funeral

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Peace

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

  Homer

  Friendship, Family, Sympathy

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.

  Bonnie St. John

  Real, Struggle, Feelings

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• Friendship's the wine of life.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Real, Wine

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.38

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• The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Faithful, Mind

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.64, Jazzybee Verlag

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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

  True Friend, Real, Solitude

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

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Real, Home, Spending Time

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• Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Character, Thinking

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• A real friend does not pick up the bill for an addict’s drugs: he packs the friend off to rehab instead. Today, only those who speak up against Israel’s policies – who denounce the occupation, the blockade, and the war – are the nation’s true friends.

  Gideon Levy

  True Friend, Real, War

  "Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel - and the Most Heroic". Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Growing up from Nirvana to all the bands I was listening to at the teenage time, those were my best friends, more than my real friends. Those were the people that sang me to sleep or gave me the confidence I needed to go to first period. When we're all so insecure with weird stuff, when we're having weird feelings toward girls or guys, or whatever. It's the insecurity of life that we all go through. So music helped me.

  Aaron Bruno

  Girl, Growing Up, Teenage

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• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Purpose, Critical Spirit

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• Internet friends are real friends

  Wilson Rawls

  Real, Internet

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• It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Real, Fate

  Charles Dickens (2015). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, Volume 2 (of 2) (Illustrations)”, p.178, E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Strength, Heart

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thankful

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• A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll.

  Prince

  Real, Mentor, Payroll

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• I just feel so fortunate, A, that I'm able to talk to people and B, keep in contact with my real friends.

  Kirby Bliss Blanton

  Real, People, Able

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• It used to be you had real friends on the other side of the aisle. Its not like that anymore. Society has changed. The public is to blame as well. I think the people have gotten dumber.

  Gary Ackerman

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

  Lady Gaga

  Fake Friends, Real, People

  "Lady Gaga Talks VMAs Performance (Exclusive Interview)". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. August 23, 2013.

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• George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

  Bill Medley

  Real, Blessed, Vegas

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• There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

  Rita Zahara

  Relationship, Fake Friends, Real

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• I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are.

  Rita Zahara

  Relationship, Real, Nice

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• The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Friendship, Night, Light

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