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...on friendship
"The strongest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity; as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame." -Colton
"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for and end." -Quarles
"Let friendship crawl to a height, for if it moves to fast it will run itself out of breath." - Me! : )
"Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweetenth it-for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us." -Howell
"He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends." -S. Weir Mitchell
"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend." -Euripides
...on love and beauty
"If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly; for if the devil hears it he will echo it many times." -Durivage
"No cord or cable can draw so forceibly, or bind soo fast as love can do with a single thread." -Burton
"Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it." -Hannah More
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us." -Virgil
"O woman! In our hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please andvariable as the shade, by the light quivering aspen made; when pain and anquish wring the brow, a ministering angel are thou." -Walter Scott
...on the mind and thoughts
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of another." -Montaigne
"A human being is not, in any proper sense, a human being till he is educated." -H. Mann
"Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range." -Rochefoucauld
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open." -Lord Thomas Dewar
"Man, know thyself for all wisdom centers there. " -Young
"No one who has a complete knowledge of himself will ever have a true understanding of another." -Novalis
"Much wisdom goes with fewest words." -Sophocles
"Mark this well, ye man of action! Ye are, after all. nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought." -Heine
"Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius." -Gibbon
"He had lived long enough to know that it is unwise to wish everything explained." -Coningsby
...on miscellaneous thoughts
"To know how to hide one's ability is a great skill." -Rochefoucauld
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with." -Leighton
"The real test in gold and in life is not keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after we are in." -John H. Moore
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." -Coleridge
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breasts, that however high we reach we are never satisfied." -Machiavelli
"Trust not him that hath once broken faith." -Shakespeare
"Silence is one great art of conversation." -Hazlitt
"Whatever is wirth doing at all, is worth doing well." -Chesterfield
"Nothing is soo infectious as example." -Charles Kingsley
"Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself." -Bovee
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