Friendship

(126 votes)   Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

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(126 votes)   He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(126 votes)   Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(126 votes)   The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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(125 votes)   Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.

Seneca

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(125 votes)   Friendship is like milking a cow. If you milk too often, you won't get much milk. If you don't milk enough, the milk is sour and the cow is soar. But if you milk regularly, the milk is sweet, plentiful, and the cow is happy.

Aimee Scott
1994-? 13, lives in CA. Inspired by her friend, Anja

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(125 votes)   Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Anonymous

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(125 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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(125 votes)   What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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(125 votes)   You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

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(124 votes)   Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(124 votes)   Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Joe E. Lewis
American Writer

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(124 votes)   The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

John Henry Newman
1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer

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(123 votes)   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.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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(122 votes)   A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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