"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

Thoreau, Henry David on home
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"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on secrets
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"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

Colton, Charles Caleb on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

Wilde, Oscar on senses
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"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action."

Quarles, Francis on thoughts and thinking
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."

Unknown, Source on wives   

"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on family
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"Where were you... when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons (and daughters) of God shouted for joy? [4-7, Job 38:}"

Bible on present   

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother."

Voltaire on superstition
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"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

Fuller, Thomas on marriage
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"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on daughters
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"My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy."

Shakespeare, William on contentment
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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

Pasteur, Louis on goals   

"Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship   

"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."

Johnson, Samuel on libraries
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"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on libraries
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"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."

Maupassant, Guy de on love
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer."

Jerome, Jerome K. on love
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"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death."

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end."

Alan, Robert on smile
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"Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope."

Levi, Peter on action
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."

Wilde, Oscar on books - reading
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"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense."

Disraeli, Benjamin on books - reading
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"Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work."

Sawyer, Charles on hope
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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