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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Wise

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sympathy, Women, Two

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  Katherine Mansfield (1987). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II: 1918-September 1919”, OUP Oxford

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• If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.

  Paul Overstreet

  Want, Friendship Lyrics, Left

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• An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Games

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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• Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.

  Solomon

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fall

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, True Friend, Share

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• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Friendship, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

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• A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly

  Henry Adams

  Years, Two, Bird

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

  Christina Stead

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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• We have a friend and protector, from whom, if we do not ourselves depart from Him, nor power nor spirit can separate us. In His strength let us proceed on our journey, through the storms, and troubles, and dangers of the world. However they may rage and swell, though the mountains shake at the tempests, our rock will not be moved: we have one friend who will never forsake us; one refuge, where we may rest in peace and stand in our lot at the end of the days. That same is He who liveth, and was dead; who is alive forevermore; and hath the keys of hell and of death.

  Reginald Heber

  God, Rest In Peace, Journey

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• I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Writing, Enemy, Gave Up

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• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual.

  Jean Paul

  Life, Teacher, Character

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• People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

  Sara Paxton

  School, People, Would Be

  "Teen Talks to: Sara Paxton". Interview with Andrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. September 5, 2007.

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• The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mother, Father, Faces

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• Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

  William Cowper

  Giving, World, England

  William Cowper (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His Writings. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.370

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• Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Patience, Perseverance, Fire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1763, Manonmani Publishers

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• When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."

  Nelly Furtado

  Voice, Void, Like You

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

  Louis de Bernieres

  World, Stranger, Passing

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• I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Night, Echoes, Silence

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• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Writing, Mean

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• Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Children, Lying, Heart

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (1995). “The Forest House”, p.198, Penguin

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• It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving

  "Honey Pie". www.newyorker.com. August 20, 2001.

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