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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. – Hilaire Belloc	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Have no friends not equal to yourself. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends – Robert Louis Stephenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is slow-ripening fruit. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.

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