"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
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"A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."
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"This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us."
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"The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?"
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"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
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"Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person ."
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"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
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"If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love."
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"How delightful to find a friend in everyone."
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"Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place."
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"You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine."
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"When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
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"Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it."
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"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"
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"If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
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