Friendship

(136 votes)   No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Danish Proverbs
Sayings of Danish Origin

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(135 votes)   Who ceases to be a friend never was one.

Greek Proverb
Sayings of Greek Origin

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(134 votes)   The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome
c.342-420, Croatian Christian Ascetic, Scholar

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(133 votes)   Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(132 votes)   And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(132 votes)   Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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(132 votes)   The good fellow to everyone is a good friend to no one.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(131 votes)   Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson
18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM

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(131 votes)   Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(131 votes)   Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Emily Kimbrough

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(131 votes)   Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(130 votes)   Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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(130 votes)   Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(130 votes)   Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Euripides

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(130 votes)   The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

Elizabeth Bowen

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