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On Friendship

Our duty is not to see through one another, but to see one another through.
 — LEONARD SWEET

Go often to the house of your friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
 — SCANDINAVIAN PROVERB

The sweetness of friendship issues from the response to a basic need in human nature.  One needs friends, companions, to supplement the intimacy of family relationships if his life is to be complete. 
 — BERYL COHON

So unique and important is friendship that God Himself teaches the skill to human beings and creates friendships among people.
 — RABBI DAVID WOLPE

A friend may well be reckoned a masterpiece of nature.
 — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Friendship must be kept in constant repair.  
 — SAMUEL JOHNSON

He makes no friend who never made a foe.
 — ALFRED LORD TENNYSON

A friend is one who knows your song, and sings it to you when you forget.
 — ANONYMOUS

It is highly necessary for every person to have at least one sincere friend, one true companion.  This friend must be so close to us that we are able to tell even that of which we are ashamed.
 — RABBI SIMCHA BUNAM

Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.  
 — GEORGE ELIOT

Be first to greet your fellow man.  Invite him to your joyous occasions.  Call him by complimentary names.  Do not give away his secrets, help him when he is in trouble.  Look after his interests when he is away.  Overlook his shortcomings and forgive him promptly.  Criticize him when has done wrong.  Respect him always.  Do not deceive him.  Do not lie to him.  Pray for him and wish him happiness.
 — “MENORAT HA-MAOR”

Friendships have defended more borders than arms and cannon ever have.  
 — DWIGHT EISENHOWER

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
 — WALTER WINCHELL

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
 — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The name of Bravest of the Brave,
On whom should we bestow?
On him who turns into a friend
His greatest mortal foe.
 — TALMUD

Collected by Dov Peretz Elkins

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