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• I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.

  Rick Yancey

  Moving, Past, Waiting

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.296, Penguin

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• I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

  Bernadette Peters

  Years, Missing, Dear God

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play,
  I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted musician who makes great music! We go back 25 years and Steve will always be my dear friend.

  Nathan East

  Years, Play, Musician

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• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Arrows, Guilt, Needs

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• How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it!

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

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• Use your health while you have it, my dear friend and brother. Do not cast away peculiar opportunities that may never come again. You know not when your last Sabbath with your people may come. Speak for eternity. Above all things, cultivate your own spirit. A word spoken by you when your conscience is clear, and your heart full of God's Spirit, is worth ten thousand words spoken in unbelief and sin.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Brother, Heart, Opportunity

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.86

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• So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

  William Allen White

  Heart, Men, Voice

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• My dear friends, God’s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Reflection, Profound, Justice

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.26, CUA Press

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• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  Morton Feldman

  Loss, Simple, Drawing

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• Jesus Himself has already paid the price for your sins, so stop condemning yourself! Today, when you look into the mirror, what do you see? Do you see yourself trapped in all your failings, mistakes, and sins? Or do you see what God sees? My dear friend, when God sees you today, He sees Jesus. Use your eyes of faith and believe that as Jesus is, so are you. In God’s eyes, you are righteous, you are favored, you are blessed, and you are healed. You are freed from all sin, all pangs of guilt, all forms of condemnation, and every bondage of addiction!

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Mistake, Blessed

  Joseph Prince (2014). “The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

  Celia Thaxter

  Uplifting, Cheer, Flower

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

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• Come into the mountains, dear friend Leave society and take no one with you But your true self Get close to nature Your everyday games will be insignificant Notice the clouds spontaneously forming patterns And try to do that with your life.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Life, Nature, Clouds

  Susan Polis Schutz (1972). “Come Into the Mountains, Dear Friend”, Blue Mountain Press

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• I hate to say this, but not everyone seems happy that you’re still alive,” Finn said, picking up on the glares coming my way. “You can’t please everyone,” I drawled. “And you know how much I hate to disappoint our dear friends in the underworld.

  Jennifer Estep

  Hate, Alive, Way

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Law, Liberty

  Martin Luther (1967). “Selected Writings of Martin Luther: 1520 523”

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• If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Loss, Men

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• New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Beautiful, New York, Crazy

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• Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Friendship, Goodbye, Peace

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1007, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

  Kirk Douglas

  Age, Gone, Dear

  "EXCLUSIVE: Kirk Douglas Reflects on an Amazing Career". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Ah! My dear friend painting is to us what the music of Berlioz and Wagner was before us - a consolatory art for sore hearts! And yet there are only a few like you and me who feel it!!!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Painting, Like You

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Heart, Fire

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• Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Men, Discovery

  Letter to Élie Diodati (p. 279), January 2, 1638.

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• In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Long, Speak

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On New Year's Eve, my dear friend lost his battle with depression . . . Though he wasn't the first friend I've lost to suicide, I sure hope he's the last. I wish I had the chance to go back and tell them what they meant to me. I wish I had the chance to beg them to seek help, to keep fighting. I wish they knew that they were surrounded by countless others who struggle on a daily basis.

  Jared Padalecki

  Suicide, New Year, Struggle

  "'Always Keep Fighting': The Campaign Leading The Discussion Against Self-Harm" by Mckenzie Foust, www.theodysseyonline.com. March 28, 2016.

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