Friendship Quotes
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We ought to cherish the body. Our body's substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God.
Thomas Aquinas
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
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It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
Tony Abbott
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
William Hazlitt
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The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.
George Washington
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A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Hermann Hesse
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To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty makes and the hope that it will be fulfilled are not always realized: beauty, like friendship, is also double-edged.
Alexander Nehamas
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
William Weaks Morris
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Erma Bombeck
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Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.
Chris Bradford
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Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Friendship warms like a sunbeam; charms like a good story; inspires like a brave leader; binds like a golden chain; guides like a heavenly vision.
Newell Dwight Hillis
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch
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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
John Glenn
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What's quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it's born out of genuine friendship. And nobody's infringing on anybody's space.
Johnny Flynn
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
Marquis de Lafayette
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Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
Joseph Parry
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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
Claudine Guerin de Tencin
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward Beecher
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My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.
Evan Bayh
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Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Eustace Budgell