Quotes 21 till 40 of 1030.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Source: Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.
Source: A Long Memorial Day American Spectator (1 June 2010) -
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Source: The Gunslinger (1982) 145
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