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“Let me take up your metaphor. Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat or violence or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after. The more graceful and ornamental it was, the more clearly do we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if they are fractured, may be cemented again; precious stones, never.”

Ifs Wells May States Friendship Violence Broken Stones Let Me Metaphor Accidents Former Heat Trusted Hopelessness Flawed Restoring Coarse Vases Precious Stones

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.”

States Friendship United United States Extraordinary Franklin Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Barack Obama

“But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.”

Knows Want Giving States Pain Remember Happiness Hope Names Felt Friendship Patience Fascinating Being Happy Parting Pain Is Temporary

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact. For there are plenty of mistakes made by writers out of ignorance, and which any man finds it difficult to avoid. But if we knowingly write what is false, whether for the sake of our country or our friends or just to be pleasant, what difference is there between us and hack writers? Readers should be very attentive to and critical of historians, and they in turn should be constantly on their guard.”

“When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.”

Source: The End of My Career

“... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.”

World Way Looks Book States Age Earth Turns Friendship Community Garden Educational Unconscious Patches

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.”

People World Hard States Moving Friendship Friends Another World

Author:Anne Roiphe

“In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.”

Book States Science Friendship Company Cases Economy Mathematics Profound Lawyer Mathematical Mathematician Businessman Economist Acquisition Mathematics By Mathematicians

Author:Alfred Adler

“If friendship is to transpire between two people, it is important that both be in a state of availability. I have often been in the company of those who complain that they have no friends. Inevitably, I have observed that this condition was due to their own lack of availability; they were too encumbered to be able to welcome another. Such unavailability may be exterior in nature; that is, people may lack the time or the emotional energy necessary for friendship.”

People Ifs May Two Important States Able Energy Nature Friendship Company Conditions Emotional Dues Complaining Welcome Exterior No Friends Availability Emotional Energy

Author:Ignace Lepp

“Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.”

Believe May States Individual Friendship Don't Believe Individuality Be Good Closest Consent Pierce Facade Closest Friends

Author:Melvin Belli

“Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend . . . asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.”

States Feelings Purpose Friendship New York Building Emotional Experience Treats Sight Empires Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Robert Frost

“He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.”

Men States Friendship Enemy Honor Highest Harm Disgrace Tao Te Ching Leadership Friends And Enemies Unconcerned

Book:Tao Te Ching

Source: Tao Te Ching