"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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"Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly."
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"But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope."
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"In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers."
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"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
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"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you."
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"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."
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"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
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"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine."
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"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."
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"Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together."
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"Friends, though absent, are still present."
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"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
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"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."
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"To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune."
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"My friends, there are no friends."
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"I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend."
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"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
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"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want."
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