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Welcome to these Hearth Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth
or burn down your house, you can never tell.
- Joan Crawford
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
- Euripides
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
Walking with a friend in the dark is better
than walking alone in the light.
- Helen Keller
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well
wishes it for my sake.
- Anonymous
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
- Thomas Jefferson
A sister is a gift to the heart,
a friend to the spirit,
a golden thread to the meaning of life.
- Isadora James
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
The walls we build around us to
keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
A true friend sees the good in everything,
and brings out the best in the worst of things.
- Sasha Azevedo
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
A friend is someone who understands my past,
believes in my future,
and accepts me just the way I am.
- Anonymous
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.
- Anais Nin
A best friend is like a four leaf clover,
hard to find and lucky to have.
- Anonymous
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
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