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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815)In context
- Business
Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Love
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 4In context
- Love
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Francis Bacon1561–1626
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Apophthegms (1624), No. 97
- Age
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937Rectorial Address, St. Andrew’s (3 May 1922)
- Advice
- Enemies
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir1908–1986Conclusion, p. 541
- Life & Death
- Love
If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 25:21–22 (KJV)In context
- Enemies
- Forgiveness
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 27:17 (KJV)In context
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake1757–1827A Poison Tree (1794), Songs of Experience (1794), A Poison Tree, st. 1In context
- Anger
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake1757–1827Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1
- Enemies
- Forgiveness
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer1906–1945The Cost of Discipleship (1937), “The Enemy—the Extraordinary”, p. 147
“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XIn context
- Enemies
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Enemies
- Morality