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A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,—by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,—becomes the genius that rules the rest of life.

— Amos Bronson Alcott Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Orphic Sayings (1840)

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.

Concord Days (1872)

Genius is but the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.

The Doctrine and Discipline of Human Culture (1836)

Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman.

Concord Days (1872)

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Table-Talk (1877)

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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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