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“Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.”

Kind May Has Beens Age Duty Friends Intellectual Tradition Forgotten Aids Treasure Unfortunate Transmit Invaluable Intellectual Life

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“There have been fewer friends on earth than kings.”

Has Beens Earth Friends Kings Fewer Fewer Friends

Book:The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

Source: The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806

“It has been always held for a special principle in friendship that prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.”

Has Beens Principles Special Friends Adversity Prosperity

Book:Elizabeth I: Collected Works

Source: Elizabeth I: Collected Works

“So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.”

Has Beens Self Feelings Purpose Friendship United Our Lives Danger Friends Ordinary Difficulty Obstacles Association Insurmountable Incompleteness

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.”

Love Has Beens Song Father Prayer Levels Brother Friends Annie Brother Love

Author:John Denver

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Humor Truth Funny Lying Politics Party Friends Republican Humorous Democrat Telling The Truth Propositions Telling Lies

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

“We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade.”

Source: The Undying One: And Other Poems

“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.”

Has Beens Friendship United Friends Adversity Flames Iron Mutual Overcoming Adversity

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think