“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
— Bruce Lee
Author: Bruce Lee
Category: friendship
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“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
— Saint Basil
Author: Saint Basil
Category: friendship
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“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”
— Laura Riding
Author: Laura Riding
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“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”
— Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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“Value your friendship. Value your relationships.”
— Barbara Bush
Author: Barbara Bush
Category: friendship
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“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.”
— William Hazlitt
Author: William Hazlitt
Category: friendship
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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: friendship
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“Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?”
— Emily Bronte
Author: Emily Bronte
Category: friendship
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“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
— Emil Ludwig
Author: Emil Ludwig
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“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Category: friendship
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“My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.”
— John Woo
Author: John Woo
Category: friendship
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