Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about."
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Neighbour
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Henri Bergson
Philosopher
"In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Power is the near neighbour of necessity."
Samuel Butler
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
"Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them."
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"Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more."
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"True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be."
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"When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."
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"I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white."
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"I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest."
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"A mountaine and a river are good neighbours."
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"All is well with him, who is beloved of his neighbours."
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"The way is an ill neighbour."
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"Rob a neighbour with a smile."
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