Dear Friend Quotes

• All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Spring, Tree

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• Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Believe, Angel

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.239, Penguin

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, Peace, War

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• In the end, dear friend, it is always between us and God, not between us and them.

  Mother Teresa

  Ends, Dear

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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Wall

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• True friends see who we really are, hear our words and the feelings behind them, hold us in the safe harbor of their embrace, and accept us as we are. Good friends mirror our best back to us, forgive us our worst, and believe we will evolve into wise, wacky, and wonderful old people. Dear friends give us their undivided attention, encourage us to laugh, and entice us into silliness. And we do the same for them. A true friend gives us the courage to be ourselves because he or she is with us always and in all ways. In the safety of such friendships, our hearts can fully open.

  Sue Thoele

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

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• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Country

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

  Liza Minnelli

  Dear, Saddened

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• Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorial Day, War, Adversity

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Games, England

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

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• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

  Edith Wharton

  Friendship, Best Friend, Self

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7592, Delphi Classics

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• Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Directors

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• My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Complacency, Clear

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 May 1783)

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• But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Loss, Thinking

  Sonnet 30

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• When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.

  Brian Jacques

  Running, Fall, Rain

  Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin

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• When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

  Adrian Rogers

  Ideas, Bbq, People

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• Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.

  John Flavel

  Fall, Names, Looks

  "THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP".

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• I’m mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

  Cheryl Ladd

  Heart, Loss, Intelligent

  "Friends, Colleagues React To Death Of John Forsythe". www.accessonline.com. April 2, 2010.

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• I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

  Ed Harris

  Dear God, Aids, Particular

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• Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

  Christine Baranski

  Doors, Careers, Roles

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• ...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.

  Walt Whitman

  Simple, Men, Two

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.293

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• Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.

  Al Gore

  Stupid, Humorous, Winning

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• Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

  John McLeod

  Love, Spring, Healing

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