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Friend Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
- While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it…
- We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
- The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's…
- Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it…
- Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
- Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with…
- As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love…
- As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
- I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.
- To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.
- I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed…
- My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be…
- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would…
- The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.
- I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
- The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows…
- On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that…
- The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love…
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- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him. — Saint Augustine
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila
- Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. — Richard Bach
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn,… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between… — Francis Bacon
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou