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Opposition is true friendship. -- William Blake
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -- Jean de La Fontaine
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. -- St. Jerome
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. -- Thomas Aquinas
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. -- David Storey
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. -- Charles Caleb Colton
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. -- Charles Kingsley
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. -- Baltasar Gracian
True friendship can exist only between equals. -- Plato
True friendship is a plant of slow growth. -- George Washington
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. -- E. W. Howe
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship. -- Sallust
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother. -- Benjamin Franklin
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Alexander Pope
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. -- William Shakespeare
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. -- C. S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. -- C. S. Lewis
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others. -- Nelson Mandela
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Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for. -- Mariella Frostrup
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want. -- Sabrina Bryan
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. -- Richard Burton
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. -- Harbhajan Singh
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. -- Suzanne Brockmann
true friendship knows no distance -- Emma Otis
True friendship is never serene. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
True friendship is self-love at second-hand. -- William Hazlitt
True friendship resists time, distance and silence. -- Isabel Allende
True friendship is a promise you keep forever. -- Sarah Dessen
True friendship never questions what it costs you. -- Stephen Richards
I see love as an evolution of true friendship. -- Robert Pattinson
Friends don't spy; true friendship is about privacy, too. -- Stephen King
True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship. -- Francis Bacon
You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies. -- Frank Moore Colby
Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship can only be addition to, not a substitute for true love -- P. C. Cast
There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship. -- Carlos P. Romulo
Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. -- Catiline
The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. -- John Marsden
To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God. -- William Temple
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety. -- Jacqueline Carey
one of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood -- Anonymous
As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. -- Vera Nazarian
True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth. -- Richard G. Scott
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. -- Nelson Mandela
True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. -- Dalai Lama
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion... -- Shannon Hale
With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is. -- Aelred of Rievaulx
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service. -- George Edward Woodberry
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. -- Thomas Jefferson
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship -- Mother Teresa
Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever. -- Ming-Dao Deng
That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. -- Sarah Addison Allen
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship. -- Henry David Thoreau
True friendship is an unconditional, unselfish, reciprocal service not by lips, but heart to never let its in-built trust to ever fall apart. -- Anuj
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Is it not enough to shine,To know that friends are true?That love is born of friendship,And who you are is you? -- Frederic M. Perrin
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. -- William Shakespeare
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.] -- Sallust
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. -- Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. -- Charlotte Bronte
Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake. -- Brian Jacques
True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision. -- Helen Rowland
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other. -- Mother Teresa
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey. -- Jack Nicholson
Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path. -- Gautama Buddha
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. -- Joseph Addison
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend. -- Phil Callaway
If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away. -- Wilmer Valderrama
A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness. -- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. -- John Wooden
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. -- Elif Safak
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough. -- Elif Safak
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true, -- Atifete Jahjaga
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be. -- Harriet Lerner
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true. -- Atifete Jahjaga
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you. -- Dorothy Allison
True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. -- August von Platen-Hallermunde

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