~ It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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~ Though friendship is not quick to burn,
It is explosive stuff. ~
~ There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. ~
~ I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.
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~ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
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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 of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. ~
~ Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate ~
~ Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. ~
~ I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have. ~
~ Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ~
~ Be a friend to thyself and others will too. ~