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For my boyhood's friend hath fallen, the pillar of my trust,
The true, the wise, the beautiful, is sleeping in the dust.

— George Stillman Hillard

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Sooner or later the world comes round to see the truth and do the right.

A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

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Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live.

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The natural instincts of a generous heart shrink from an inveterate hater as the child shrinks from the snake in his path.

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Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin Diary entries (1914)

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