D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Real Quotes

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Firsts Quotes

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

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One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

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There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

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When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

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Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this."

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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

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He that wrongs a friend Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about A silent court of justice in his breast, Himself the judge and jury, and himself The prisoner at the bar ever condemned.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Justice Quotes

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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