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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it
as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it
is really cooperating with it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow

An individual who breaks a law that
conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I submit that an individual who breaks the law
that conscience tells him is unjust
and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail
to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust law
that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts
the penalty of imprisonment
in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice,
is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

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

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

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

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

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

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

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

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

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 friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In everyone's life, at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

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

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

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts

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

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

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

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

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

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous

The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson

A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James

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 friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

I never found a companion that was
so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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

Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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