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 | ""A friend you have to buy won"t be worth what you pay for
him." | |
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G. D. Prentice
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| ""Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my
enemies."" | |
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Maréchal Villars
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| "A false friend and a shadow stay around only while the sun
shines." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "A friend in power is a friend lost." | |
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Henry Brooks Adams
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| "A friend is a gift you give yourself." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "A FRIEND IS A PERSON ... With whom you can be sincere.... To whom
you never need to defend yourself.... On whom you can depend whether
present or absent.... With whom you never need pretend.... To whom you can
reveal yourself without fear of betrayal.... Who does not feel she owns you
because you are her friend.... Who will not selfishly use you because she
has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND... AND I WOULD BE SUCH A
FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND! ~ Y-O-U ~" | |
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Alfred Armand Montapert
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| "A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." | |
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Fr. Jerome Cummings
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| "A friend is someone you don"t have to be nice to." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are
Turning Out Drawers." | |
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Pam Brown
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| "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for
adversity." | |
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The Bible
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| "A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections And rebukes
evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden
treasure." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "A man"s friendships are one of the best measures of his
worth." | |
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Charles Robert Darwin
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| "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks
out." | |
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Walter Winchell
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| "A real friend is someone who knows all your faults, but likes you
anyway." | |
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Charles M. Schulz
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| "A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your
successes." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "A true friend is someone who is there for you when he?d rather be
anywhere else." | |
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Len Wein
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| "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and the one which we
take the least thought to acquire." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to
endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without
strategy." | |
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Anita Brookner
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| "And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy
thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion?d thought his act. Be thou
familiar, but by no means vulgar; The friends thou hast, and their
adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy
times appear, you will be alone. ?Donec eris felix, multos numerabis
amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris" | |
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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid
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| "Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one
of God?s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all the power of
going out of one?s own self and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble
and loving in another." | |
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Thomas Hughes
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| "But in deede, A friend is never knowne till a man have neede." | |
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John Heywood
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| "Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with
someone you love, aren"t you already there?" | |
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Richard Bach
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| "Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well
as you can." | |
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Ralph Charell
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| "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born
until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is
born." | |
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Anaïs Nin
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| "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him
by heart and his friends can only read the title." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a
foe." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "Friends are relatives you make for yourself." | |
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Eustache Deschamps
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| "Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can
warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate." | |
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David Pratt
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| "Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an
abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves."" | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a
part of another; people are friends in spots." | |
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George Santayana
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| "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an
opportunity." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another:
"What! You, too? I thought I was the only one."" | |
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Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
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| "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "Friendship is Love without his wings!" | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Friendship is one mind in two bodies." | |
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Mencius
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| "Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine
of life." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the
setting sun of life." | |
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Jean de La Fontaine
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| "Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the
setting sun of life." | |
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Jean de La La Fontaine
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| "Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter." | |
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James Fenimore Cooper
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| "Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one
cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful
things of life." | |
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James F. Byrnes
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| "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you
haven"t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven"t learned
anything." | |
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Muhammad Ali
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| "Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any
other fragile and precious thing." | |
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Randolph S. Bourne
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| "From quiet homes and first beginnings, Out to the undiscovered ends,
There"s nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of
friends." | |
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Hilaire Belloc
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| "Give me one friend, just one, who meets The needs of all my varying
moods." | |
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Esther M. Clark
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| "Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can
meet,?perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy
wrath can send, Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!" | |
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George Canning
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| "Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the
unused path." | |
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Proverb
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| "Good friends are good for your health." | |
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Irwin Sarason
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| "Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any
other fragile and precious thing." | |
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Randolph Bourne
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| "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for
anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps
friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and
contentment." | |
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Grenville Kleiser
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| "Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one." | |
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Duncan Stuart
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| "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and
common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." | |
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Alphonse de Lamartine
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| "He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are
his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to
the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such
devotion." | |
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Unknown
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| "He who gives money, gives much. He who gives time, gives more. He
who gives himself, gives all." | |
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Thomas S. Monson
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| "I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present
minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses." | |
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Katherine Mansfield
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| "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that
handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let"s face it,
friends make life a lot more fun." | |
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Charles Swindoll
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| "I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them
where I can find them, but I seldom use them." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their
ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the
material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of
establishing God"s kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a
sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they
have ever known. They will not be ashamed to say to themselves and to
their fellows that God and his work come first. When they can develop the
faith and the courage to make this acknowledgment, self-sufficiency and
egotism will be replaced by humility of spirit. The brotherhood of man
will become real to them. Their service will be ennobled, and they will
lay the foundation for the attainment of the highest rewards and blessings
vouchsafed to humanity." | |
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Stephen L. Richards
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| "I have no sceptre, but I have a pen." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the
things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than
friendship." | |
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Pietro Aretino
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| "I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a
deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting
friendships can give." | |
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Marlin K. Jensen
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| "I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I
cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar." | |
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Robert Brault
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| "If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important
that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company
of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have
observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability;
they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such
unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the
time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship." | |
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Ignace Lepp
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| "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my
friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." | |
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Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster
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| "If it"s painful for you to criticize your friends, you"re safe in
doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that"s the time to
hold your tongue." | |
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Alice Duer Miller
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| "If you have one true Friend, you have more than your Share comes
to." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "If you have one true friend, you have more than your share. Chance
makes our parents, but choice makes our friends." | |
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Jacques Delille
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| "If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if
you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will
become what he ought to be and could be." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our
friends." | |
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John Churton Collins
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| "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends." | |
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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| "It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly
frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not." | |
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| "It is not so much our friends" help that helps As the confidence of
their help." | |
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Epicurus
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| "It"s so much more friendly with two." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is
far the best ending for one." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Let us ... realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that the
power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success." | |
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David Oman McKay
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| "Life is fortified by many friendships" | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to." | |
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Arnold H. Glasgow
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| "Love begins with love." | |
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Jean de la Bruyere
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| "Love is friendship set on fire." | |
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Jeremy Taylor
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| "Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn?t seem to
crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces." | |
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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| "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "My friends are my estate." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running
today." | |
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Richard Adams
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| "My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I"ll
not be knowing; Yet there isn"t a train I wouldn"t take, No matter where
it?s going." | |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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| "No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your
right to grow." | |
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Alice Malsenior Walker
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| "Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than
vengeance." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes;
they were easiest for his feet." | |
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John Selden
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| "On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing
great but mind." | |
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Sir William Hamilton
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| "One does not make friends. One recognizes them." | |
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Garth Henrichs
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| "Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is
much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you
two old or homely faces." | |
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| "Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only
friends that they like." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an
end." | |
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Francis Quarles
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| "The best mirror is an old friend." | |
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George Herbert
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| "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship." | |
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William Blake
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| "The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another"s
little lapses." | |
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David Storey
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| "The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or
leagues of pleasures." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects
the other"s dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from
him." | |
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Cyril Connelly
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| "The good man is the friend of all living things." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a
fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when
they do." | |
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Nan Fairbrother
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| "The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their
friends thought I didn"t exist." | |
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Aaron Machado
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| "The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of
people who should be friends." | |
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Shirley MacLaine
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| "The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels
it." | |
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Israel Zangwill
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| "The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise
provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by
awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet
are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity." | |
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Niccoló Machiavelli
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| "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are
wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The qualities of your friends will be those of your enemies, cold
friends, cold enemies; half friends, half enemies; fervid enemies, warm
friends." | |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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| "The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with
the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are
utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of
life and number as their most sacred experiences." | |
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Eugene Kennedy
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| "The World is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are.
If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the World will
prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The World is what you
are." | |
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Thomas Dreier
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| "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "There is no friend like the old friend who has shared our morning
days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise; Fame is the
scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the
breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere
enough to tell him disagreeable truths." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good
friend." | |
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Katherine Butler Hathaway
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| "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true
friendship." | |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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| "There"s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with
CHOCOLATE" | |
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Linda Grayson
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| "Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but
those who kindly reprove thy faults." | |
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Socrates
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| "Think where man"s glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I
had such friends." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Three Friends There were three friends Discussing life. One said:
"Can we live together and know nothing of it? Work together and produce
nothing? Can people fly around in space and still forget to exist World
without end?" The three friends looked at each other and burst out
laughing. They had no explanation. Thus they were better friends than
before. Then one friend died. Confucius sent a disciple to help the other
two Chant the traditional funeral ritual. His disciple found that one of
them had composed a song. While the other played the lute, They sang:
"Hey, Sung Hu! Where"d you go? You have gone Where you were before. And we
are here-- Damn it! We are here!" Then the disciple of Confucius burst in
on them and exclaimed: "May I inquire where in the funeral ritual it
allows you to sing so irreverently in the presence of the departed?" The
two friends looked at each other, smiled, and said: "Well trained in
liturgy, but the poor fellow doesn"t understand life and death!"" | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true
friendship." | |
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus Sallust
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| "TRUCE, n. Friendship." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on
darkness and ignorance." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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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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George Washington
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| "True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom
known until it be lost." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "True friendship is never serene." | |
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Marie Dezzz Rabutin-Chantal
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| "Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired." | |
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Homer
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| "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we
take a little of each other everywhere." | |
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Tim McGraw
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| "We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for
ours to amuse them." | |
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Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
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| "We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who
are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but
the desire to equal others is a sign of envy." | |
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Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé
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| "We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to
behave to us." | |
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Aristotle
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| "When a friend is in trouble, don"t annoy him by asking if there is
anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." | |
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Edgar Watson "Ed" Howe
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| "When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is
useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in
moments of defeat." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president,
what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to
destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."" | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "When we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the
most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving
advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and
touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be
silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us
in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing,
not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness,
that is a friend who cares." | |
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Henri Nouwen
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| "When you are down and out something always turns up ? and it"s
usually the noses of your friends." | |
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Orson Welles
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| "Women, like princes, find few real friends." | |
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Lord Lyttleton
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| "Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes
you." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than
your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." | |
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Richard David Bach
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