Dearest Friend Quotes

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared with Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Best Friend, Friendship, Jesus

  "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount: God's Character and the Believer's Conduct".

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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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• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Best Friend, Good Friend

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.265

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• You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Friendship, Best Friend, Jobs

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• I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.

  Alban Berg

  Spiritual, Mad, Joy

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds - some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists - some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!

  Malcolm X

  Christian, Atheist, Buddhist

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, p. 375, 1965.

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• Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

  Sylvia Sidney

  Fritz Lang

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• Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ.

  Donald Cargill

  Funny, Farewell, Hands

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• A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

  Jim Rohn

  Life And Love, Heart, Phones

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• I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Moon, Thinking

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• Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Farewell, Platforms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.52, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Surely there is a fitness in the institution of the Lord's Supper as a standing memorial by which the church at large may commemorate the grandest act, and by which the heart of each individual believer may be reminded of his dearest friend. You, who have learned to love the Saviour, will prize His ordinance for the Saviour's sake. You who rejoice in the salvation purchased by His dying, will not fail with gratitude and faith to show the Lord's death until He come.

  William Morley Punshon

  Gratitude, Heart, Memorial

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 371), 1895.

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• Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Eye, Best Effort, Grace

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• You must always assume that the relationship between writer and producer is that of adversaries - however you slice it. They may be your dearest friends, and they'll invite you to dinner, but when all the smoke clears and the ozone lifts, your enemy is the producer, that's the guy you're competing with, and you have to battle him, just as if you were an adversary.

  Rod Serling

  Ozone, Guy, Enemy

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Reading, Dark, Sky

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• There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Lost Ones, Giants, Industry

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• No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Duty, Fronts, Displeasure

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

  Merry Clayton

  Kings, Like Family

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• The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  God, Glasses, Soul

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• There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Self, Doe, Wounds

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• Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Teacher, Mark, Dickens

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “The Foundling: And Other Tales of Prydain”, p.97, Macmillan

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• It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...” His thumb brushed her lip. “My dearest friend.

  Tessa Dare

  Wife, Desire, Thumbs

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