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"Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
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"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."
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"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman)"
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"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
Integrity
"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."
Responsibility
"We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war."
Conflict
"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."
Truth
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
Adaptation
"Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route."
Happiness
"Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones."
Recognition
"Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out brains to make room for it."
Knowledge
"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
Power
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