Today Quotes
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.Sam Walter Foss
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.Robert Hall
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.William James
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.Robert Lynd
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.Ricther
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.George Santayana
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives; they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave.The Talmud