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A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.
- Roe Fulkerson 
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The African is my brother but he is
my younger brother by several centuries.
- Albert Schweitzer
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15
Then came Peter to him, and said,
Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me,
and I forgive him? till seven times?
Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
- Matthew 18:21-22
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
An insincere and evil friend is more
to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild beast may wound your body,
but an evil friend will wound your mind.
- The Buddha
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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