"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit."

Tallentyre, S. G. on purpose   

"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on friends and friendship
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on friends and friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise."

Collins, Kitty O'neill on adversity
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on exercise
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"The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence
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"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence   

"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on health
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"People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ability
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on gifts
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on funerals
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"What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us."

Gay, John on love
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

Bowen, Elizabeth on seasons   

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."

Fitzhenry, R. I. on uncertainty
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"When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty."

Cooley, Charles Horton on duty   

"A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable."

Dickens, Charles on temper
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"Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit."

Lowell, James Russell on character   

"Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression."

Harvey-Jones, John on planning
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"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."

Eliot, George on letters
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"Most plans are just inaccurate predictions."

Bayol, Ben on planning
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised."

Waitley, Denis on expectation
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"There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive."

Hoffer, Eric on passion
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"Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite."

Eliot, George on passion   

"To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other."

Barthes, Roland on passion
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."

Baudrillard, Jean on language
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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

Barthes, Roland on language
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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