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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of valor.
(originally "The better part of valor is discretion")
- William Shakespeare
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When a father gives to his son, both laugh;
when a son gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love,
and you smiled because you knew.
- commonly but falsely attributed to William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Love sought is good,
but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare
Love is blind.
- William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Be true to thyself.
- William Shakespeare
(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which
doth mock the meat it feeds on.
- William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
- William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new- hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
- William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
- William Shakespeare
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.
That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
- Emily Kimbrough
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes.
They are kind to one another's dreams.
- 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
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
- Charles Darwin
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
revenging one make you but even with him;
forgiving it sets you above him.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Love is the total absence of fear.
Love asks no questions.
Its natural state is one of extension and expansion,
not comparison and measurement.
- Gerald Jampolsky
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