"To live without Hope is to Cease to live."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on hope
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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"Men's faults to themselves seldom appear."

Shakespeare, William on faults
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"I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on power
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship
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"It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on marriage
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."

Hazlitt, William on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin. [Proverbs 18:24]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on friends and friendship
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"Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is like a bank account. You can't continue to draw on it without making deposits."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on courtesy   

"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Vidal, Gore on birds   

"A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods."

Henri, Robert on methods   

"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on animals
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"Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees."

Malloch, Douglas on growth
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"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"He that plants trees loves others besides himself."

Proverb, English on love
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

Lincoln, Abraham on reality
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"A short retirement urges a sweet return."

Milton, John on retirement
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."

Lucretius on contentment   

"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase."

Balguy, John on contentment   

"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."

Layton, Irving on love
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"Stupidity is a force unto itself."

Proverb, Latin on stupidity
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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on learning
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"When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them."

Mcwilliams, Peter on belief   

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

Lewis, C. S. on god
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"Humans are amphibians -- half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

Lewis, C. S. on humankind
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"The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

Lewis, C. S. on hell
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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