A brother is a friend given by Nature. ...
by Jean Baptiste Legouve

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

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

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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you,
go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.
- Matthew 18:15

In your brother is The Light.
See him as sinless,
and there can be no fear in you.
- A Course In Miracles

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

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

This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou

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 finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo

The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn

A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton

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.
- Anais Nin

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Everyone has a "best friend" during each stage of life,
but only a precious few have the same one.
- Anonymous

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

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

A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is danger that we lose sight of
what our friend is absolutely,
while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin

Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell

A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

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

A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is a source of strength and hope.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie