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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
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102
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
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Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.
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If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·Citizenship in a Republic, in African and European Addresses·April 23, 1910
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We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.
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You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
Abraham Lincolnverified·Address before the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois·February 22, 1842
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women
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There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.
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The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.
Calvin Coolidgeverified·To the State Senate on Being Elected Its President, in Have Faith in Massachusetts·January 7, 1914
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The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.
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If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.
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How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.
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A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.
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we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection
118
Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
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We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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In short, we ought to do justice in a kindly spirit to all nations and require justice from them in return.
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The friend, however, took her in, and the friend's husband was obliged to sleep upon a bench in the park every night for a week, which he did uncomplainingly if not cheerfully.