Friends Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.

  Elizabeth I

  Adversity, Special, Principles

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

  Wayne Wonder

  Grandmother, Stay Positive, Sticks

  "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.

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• Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

  Hesiod

  Friendship, Enemy, Hospitality

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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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• One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, War, Enemy

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.628

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

  Robert Fulghum

  Marriage, Love Is, Lust

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.149, Ivy Books

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• We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

  Scott Wolf

  Community, Felt

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

  Edward L. Morse

  Coffee, Wine, Purpose

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• I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Peace, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1710, Delphi Classics

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• Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Roots, Brave

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• In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sympathy, Country, Expression

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Enjoy, Superiority

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• Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Best Love, Peers, Way

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”

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• Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

  Thomas Moore

  Friendship, Loss, Long

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• Connecting with the people who are meant to be part of your own North Star is much more important than any aspect of business. It's the essence of happiness, the full realization of your potential for joy.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Essence, People

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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• Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.

  Nicholson Baker

  Real, Taken, Mean

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.64, Vintage

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• For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Law, Use

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1867). “Don Quixote”, p.189

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• By the end of your incredibly arduous, disappointing, stressful journey, you will be your true self, in a place where you belong, with friends who truly understand you and bring all sorts of opportunities your way.

  Martha Beck

  Opportunity, Journey, Self

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.338, Harmony

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