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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
Lois McMaster Bujold
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte
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Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
Charles Spurgeon
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The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile.
Bertrand Russell
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Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.
Sallust
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Friends have all things in common.
Plato
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We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.
Sophocles
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
Mortimer Adler
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore De Balzac
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True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert
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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
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Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.
Muriel Strode
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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab
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False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
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Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
Michael McClary
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Thomas Jones
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards
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A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.
Chinese Proverb
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person 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.
Henri Nouwen
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I once jumped off a bridge then all my friends did too because I'm a trend setter.
Emperor MAR
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
General Douglas MacArthur
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In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
German Proverb
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Mark Twain
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
Mark Twain
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
Robert Sternberg
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Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Amy Bloom
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
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Love is this divine ingredient. It alone describes what can be our perfect relationship to our Heavenly Father and our family and neighbors, and the means by which we accomplish His work.
David B. Haight
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When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.
J. Krishnamurti
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With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
Plato
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