"One friend in a lifetime is much; two……" — Henry Brooks Adams
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
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8 Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams has 8 quotes on this site.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
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The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People…
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What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
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Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no…
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
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If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary…
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More Friend Quotes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
— Aristotle
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
— Aristotle
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
— Richard Bach
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Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's…
— Kevin Bacon
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
— Hosea Ballou
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