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The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.
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Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures: all these will be cut off.
128
Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.
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To disappoint a friend is unpleasing; and he that forms expectations like yours, must be disappointed.
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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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Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
134
One good turn deserves another.
135
Two heads are better than one.
136
Many hands make light work.
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I looked in your cup to see if you had enough. You looked in mine to check if I had more than you. That difference says everything. We are not the same.
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Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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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 want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
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Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone.
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We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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Most of the friends I have seen have turned out the bitterest enemies, or cold, uncomfortable acquaintance.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces ill-humour.
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Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.
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The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.
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Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.