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"A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts."
"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."
"Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration."
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest."
"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
"The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."
"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
"Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life"
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."
"True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart"
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
"A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace."
