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" A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. "

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" Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. "

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" Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he. "

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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. "

" General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. "

" When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back. "

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" Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. "

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" I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit. "

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" One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. "

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" Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. "

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" An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. "

" What you are comes to you. "

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" A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. "

" Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? "

" I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered. "

" When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence. "

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" It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. "

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" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "

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" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "

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" Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. "

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" Beauty without expression is boring. "

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