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"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."
Brigham Young
"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."
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"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses."
Caleb Carr
"Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses."
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"We must take our friends as they are."
James Boswell
"We must take our friends as they are."
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"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
Euripides
"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."
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"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
Steve Guttenberg
"You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings."
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"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
Edvard Munch
"I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter."
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"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."
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"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."
Jean de la Bruyere
"No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less."
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"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."
Colleen Hoover
"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."
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"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
Buddha
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Epicurus
"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
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"Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore."
Ellen Muth
"Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore."
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"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."
Kazuo Ishiguro
"I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends."
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"Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position."
Donald Rumsfeld
"Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position."
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"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."
Tim Cahill
"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
Henry B. Adams
"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."
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"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."
Matthew Arnold
"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."
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"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"
Max Frisch
"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"
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"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
Chester Brown
"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
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"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
Antisthenes
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
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"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
Charles Caleb Colton
"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends."
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"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever."
Morley Safer
"A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever."
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"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."
Margaret Cavendish
"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."
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"True friendship doesn't include jealousy."
Eraldo Banovac
"True friendship doesn't include jealousy."
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"But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent."
Sarah Dessen
"But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent."
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"I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends."
Dick Schaap
"I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends."
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"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
Thomas Jefferson
"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."
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"Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends."
Liam Neeson
"Yes, I'm Catholic; I'm proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends."
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"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
Nikola Tesla
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
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"When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion."
Annie Leibovitz
"When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion."
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"Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand."
Sarah Dessen
"Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand."
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"Expose Yourself to True Friendship for It Heals, encourages and lifts you higher."
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
"Expose Yourself to True Friendship for It Heals, encourages and lifts you higher."
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"Friends; the more, the less!"
Raheel Farooq
"Friends; the more, the less!"
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"A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect."
Bryant McGill
"A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect."
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
George Dennison Prentice
"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."
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"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that."
Barry McGuire
"And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that."
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"You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself."
Toni Sorenson
"You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself."
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"Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little."
Jim Butcher
"Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little."
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"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
Ernest Hemingway
"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
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"Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend."
Obie Trice
"Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend."
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"The best mirror is an old friend."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"The best mirror is an old friend."
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"Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it."
L. M. Montgomery
"Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I'm thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much." "True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed," said Mrs. Allan, "and we should have a very high ideal of it , and never sully it by any failure in truth and sincerity. I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that had nothing of real friendship in it."
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"A boy's best friend is his mother."
Joseph Stefano
"A boy's best friend is his mother."
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"You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend."
Sue Wicks
"You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend."
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"So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me."
Marian McPartland
"So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me."
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
Thomas A. Edison
"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
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"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
Elbert Hubbard
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
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"A man by himself is in bad company."
Eric Hoffer
"A man by himself is in bad company."
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"My beautiful friend,even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i'm not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful."
Scott Stabile
"My beautiful friend,even on your darkest day i have benefited from the warmth of your light. and i know i'm not the only one. even when you are not consciously giving, you are still giving so much. with your openness, your kindness, your understanding. see yourself through my eyes, for just a moment. feel yourself through my heart.Allow me the honor of reflecting back to you the love you have shown me, time and again, when it was only real love, and real friendship that could have pulled me from the pain. let me take some of your pain now. I am here. I am yours. You are mine, my friend. I am grateful."
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