Friends Quotes - Page 20

• You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Selfish, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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• We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

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• My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

  Mason Cooley

  Young Friends, Youth, Young

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• An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

  Mason Cooley

  Enemy, Dangerous, Prudence

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• Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

  Mason Cooley

  Drinking, Accomplices

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• Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

  Hannah More

  Long, Pay, Dear

  Hannah More, Zachary Macaulay (1860). “Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq: Containing Notices of Lord Macaulay's Youth. Now First Published”, p.200

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• The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

  James Wolfe

  Country, Believe, Men

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• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  John Woolman

  Virginia, Discipline, Mind

  John WOOLMAN (1840). “A Journal of the Life, Gospel labours, and christian experiences of ---”, p.15

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• I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

  Ronnie Wood

  Two, Dublin, Bunch

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Ties, Unity, Wish

  "Oratio Pro Cnœo Plancio", II, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 827-28,

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• What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

  Edward Bennett Williams

  Law, President, Practicing Law

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• I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

  Richard Widmark

  Two, California, Gone

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Jobs, Together, Trying

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• But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

  Roger Wicker

  Egypt, People, Tough

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• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

  Theodore White

  November, Admirer, Exertion

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• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

  Mary Wesley

  Vocabulary, Important, My Best Friend

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• A real friendship is a light thing. A real friend holds you loosely.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Real, Light, Real Friends

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

  Stand Watie

  Children, Wife, Judging

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• Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

  William Penn

  Friendship, Wife, Separation

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

  Mark Twain

  Community, Opinion, Parenthood

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• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Publilius Syrus

  Friendship, Praise, Admonish

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• You can be anybody you want to be
  you can love whomever you will
  you can travel any country where your heart leads
  and know (we) will love you still.
  
  You can live by yourself,
  you can gather friends around
  you can choose one special one.
  And the only measure of your words and your deeds
  will be the love you leave behind when you're done.

  Fred Small

  Life, Country, Love You

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• It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

  Donella Meadows

  Dream, Real, Believe

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