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We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still. Then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life. It is only needful to place yourself so that if it may come, and then it comes of itself. And then everything turns and changes itself to the best.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest.

At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.

Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

do you not feel that sometimes in life one's friendships begin by antipathy - sometimes by indifference - and sometimes by that sudden magnetism of sympathy as if in some former life we had been very near and dear, and were only picking up the threads again, and to such two souls there is no feeling that they are strangers.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

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Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.

There are a lot of explorations on TV of romantic relationships, and some are good and some are bad. I think there are very few explorations of male friendship that' s not just a wingman type friendship and not just an opportunity for humor, but that really explores two friends and their relationship.