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Good friendship

Proverbs regarding accord, alliance, amicability, amity, closeness, company, concord, familiarity, fondness, friendliness, good will, harmony, rapport, sociability, solidarity

  1. The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

    Prov. 13:20 (read whole chapter)


  2. The one who forgives an offense seeks love, but whoever repeats a matter separates close friends.

    Prov. 17:9 (read whole chapter)


  3. A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

    Prov. 17:17 (read whole chapter)


  4. A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

    Prov. 18:24 (read whole chapter)


  5. Don't set foot too frequently in your neighbor's house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

    Prov. 25:17 (read whole chapter)


  6. Ointment and incense make the heart rejoice, likewise the sweetness of one's friend from sincere counsel.
    Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

    Prov. 27:9-10 (read whole chapter)


  7. As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend.

    Prov. 27:17 (read whole chapter)

From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship.

And he answered, saying:

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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