Real Friends Quotes - Page 19

• The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Real, Artist, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.411, Faber & Faber

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• Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

  James Rachels

  True Friend, Real, Understanding

  James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”

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• The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Ties, Together

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. With Glossarial Notes”, p.377

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• Keep thy friend
  Under thy own life's key.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Keys

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.228

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• Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

  Voltaire

  Real, Soil, Natural

  Voltaire (1820). “Pièces inédites de Voltaire, imprimées d'après les manuscrits originaux, pour faire suite aux différentes éditions publiées jusqu'a ce jour”, p.256

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• The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

  Voltaire

  Funny Friendship, Real, Self

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• In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Real, Exaltation, Friendship Love

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• What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Real, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Real, Finest, Can Do

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.65, The Floating Press

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• Love is the life of friendship.

  James Howell

  Real, Love Is

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• True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

  William Hazlitt

  True Friend, Real, Errors

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.114

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• Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

  Augustus Hare

  Real, Flower, Veils

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• To keep is more important than to make friends.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Real, Important

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Real

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

  Sarah Vowell

  Real, School, Caring

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 29, 2015

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• That which I would discover
  The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

  William Shakespeare

  Real, Law

  William Shakespeare, afterwards HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS HALLIWELL (James Orchard) (1854). “The Comedies of William Shakespeare: Edited with Introductions and Notes ... by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. Reprinted from the American Edition”, p.59

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• A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

  Jennifer Wilson

  True Friend, Real, Visits You

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• Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.

  Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

  Real, Heart, Ties

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• My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me

  Drake

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Real

  Song: Right Above It

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• Off a cup of C.J. Gibson, man I'm faded off the brown and I'm easily influenced by the niggas I'm around

  Drake

  Real, Drinking, Humble

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• You know good and well that you don't want a problem like that, you gon' make someone around me catch a body like that. Ohhh, don't do it! Please don't do it. Cause one of us goes in and we all go through it. And Drizzy got the money, so Drizzy gonna pay it. Those my brothers, I aint even gotta say it, that's just something they know

  Drake

  Brother, Real, Humble

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• Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

  Drake

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happy

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• Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Friends, Real, Ignorance

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• Some say that I'm their favorite, but I aint hearing none of that. I'm about my team, hoe, Young Money running back

  Drake

  Running, Real, Team

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• I got a lot of friends that come up off the strip for me. The same ones that'll come up off the hip for me.

  Drake

  Real, Humble, Bad Ass

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