Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs …
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Quote – Anaïs Nin
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“Idylls of the King”
…but, friend, to me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth. – Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King, “Elaine”
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Quote – Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel, But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. – William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act 1, …
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Quote – Martin Luther King Junior
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. – Martin Luther King Junior (1968 speech, where he reflects on the Civil Rights Movement)
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A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth …