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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our frien...

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friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to loo...

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Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend ...

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

Silence is a prince's friend.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a...

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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice abou...

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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai...

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A friend in power is a friend lost.

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in t...

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

You were reserved for my future

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the drea...

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a t...

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A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Straight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...

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Faults are soon copied.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But th...

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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...

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Chance makes our parents but choice makes our friends.

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at t...

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He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...

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My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most as...

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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been pas...

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really...

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She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome...

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Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front...

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That...

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,...

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The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage. That's why we didn't sell the picture...

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Your friend is your needs answered.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between yo...

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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him wh...

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The good man is the friend of all living things.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you...

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While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouse...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make ...

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I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good ...

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I have only one question, my sister and my friend,” she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of h...

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Atreyu was fighting not for himself, but for his friend, whom he was trying to save by defeating him...

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses ...

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Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if ...

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Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...

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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today,...

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

I mean talk. Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's bee...

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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That does...

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Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as hu...

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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

A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was al...

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These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against ...

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I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns...

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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his fri...

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