Friendship Quotes - Page 40

• If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Self Respect, Self Knowledge

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.24, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Believe, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Birthday, Giving Up, Real

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• We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Real, Thoughtful, Matter

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• What do we ask of friendship except to be taken for what we pretend to be - and without having to pretend.

  Robert Breault

  Real, Taken, Asks

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• One friend in a life-time 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 Adams

  Real, Two, Community

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Between friends there is no need of justice.

  Aristotle

  Real, Justice, Needs

  Aristotle (1811). “Works”, p.508

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• When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

  Miles Franklin

  Real, Love Is, Play

  Miles Franklin (1984). “The End of My Career”

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Real, Tyrants

  'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1

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• Have Friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Real, Existence, Friends

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• Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

  Ovid

  Real, Names, Real Friends

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• What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Thinking, Wealth

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

  Walker Percy

  Love, Real, Faces

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

  Edward Abbey

  Betrayal, Fall, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.

  Larry Flynt

  Mother, Hate, Good Friend

  "Larry Flynt's Official Response to Jerry Falwell's Death". Pine Magazine, May 16, 2007.

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• Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Different, Different Things, Comradeship

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• . . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Individuality, Subordination

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• These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Hate, Men

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• Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Expression, Imperfection, Needs

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• He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed.

  Ivanka Trump

  Attitude, Loyal, Betrayed

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• That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity

  Ambrose Bierce

  Adversity, Privilege, Contemplating

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.22, University of Georgia Press

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• My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cute, Take Me, My Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

  Francis Marion Crawford

  Cute, Mean, Elements

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• I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

  Craig Newmark

  Running, Art, Technology

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• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Jesus, Tombstone, Moving

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