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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.
A sweetly scented angel fell, she laid her head upon my disbelief, and battled with me with her ever smile.
This here song might offend some, if it does it's because your dumb.
We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.
When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
It's so much more friendly with two.
That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life.
"I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences."
Be liked and you will never want.
A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?
My best friend and I love to make fish faces.
If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.
Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.
If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company
Indeed we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost.
Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.
'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs
Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.
There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.
When the only bond between close friends is attachment, then even a minor issue may cause one's projections to change. As soon as our projections change, the attachment disappears, because that attachment was based solely on projection and expectation. It is possible to have compassion without attachment, and similarly, to have anger without hatred.
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Friendship's the wine of life.
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
I'll be your crying shoulder.
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.
My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love, or life.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
Hell, madame, is to love no longer.
. . . 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.
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.
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
While you should be friendly with all people, select with great care those whom you wish to have close to you. They will be your safeguards in situations where you may vacillate between choices, and you in turn may save them.
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.
Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.
Love is not automatic. It takes conscious practice and awareness, just like playing the piano or golf. However, you have ample opportunities to practice. Everyone you meet can be your practice session.
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me.
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste.
I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.
