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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
~ Homer ~
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The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man.
~ William Shakespeare ~
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Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
~ Anonymous ~
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To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.
~ William Shakespeare ~
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When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
~ Anonymous ~
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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True friends stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The only way to have a friend is to be one
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
~ William Blake ~
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is
~ Phillips Brooks ~
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
~ Francis Quarles ~
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ William Shakespeare ~
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My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
~ Homer ~
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
~ William Blake ~
Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green
~ Anonymous ~
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
~ Joseph Addison ~