Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Attitude Quotes

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.

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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

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A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

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Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

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When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

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No man is useless while he has a friend.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

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Keep your friendships in repair.

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True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

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