Friendship Quotes
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: “Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?
Betty MacDonald
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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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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.
William Blake
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
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Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Plutarch
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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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Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
George Sand
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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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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
George Eliot
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I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
George Washington
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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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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How do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!
Sarah Fielding
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thomas Carlyle
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The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.
Jimmy Carter
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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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You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe Biden
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Isn't any friendship a love story?
Paul Michael Glaser
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But I did feel a friendship with him.
Bobby Allison
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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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The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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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