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Friends
«The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.»
Author: Henri Nouwen
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
bereavement, by the hour, cares, confusion, curing, despair, Despaired, despairs, Friend, grief, healing, heal all, hour, In a, in a moment, knowing, moment, silent, stay, stay on, that is, tolerate, tolerating
«The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.»
Author: Hugo Black
(Jurist, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Change,
Constitution,
Enemies,
Freedom,
Friends,
Liberty,
Revolution,
Speech,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
deadliest, framer, Framers, free speech
«The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.»
Author: Phillip Brooks
| About:
Advice,
Friends
| Keywords:
adviser, advisers, ardent, blunders, helpers, special act, special case
«There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
scarcities, scarcity
«The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.»
«There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.»
Author: Homer
| About:
Enemies,
Friends
| Keywords:
admirable, confounding, confounds, delighting, man and wife, nobler, see eye to eye, The Admirable
«There is no need like the lack of a friend.»
Author: Irish Sayings
| About:
Friends
«There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
| Keywords:
amended, amending, amends, apparently, remorseful, resourceful