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Johann Kaspar Lavater

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Better | Good | Wisdom | Friends |

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Judah Lazerov, fully Judah Leib Lazerov

By your friends I gauge your wealth; by your enemies, your greatness.

Greatness | Wealth | Wisdom | Friends |

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Ludwig Lewisohn

Liberty is a living thing that passes from one generation to the next... The greatest enemy of a living thing is not its enemies but its friends who wish to cling to its antiquated form.

Enemy | Liberty | Wisdom | Friends |

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Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons.

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Metastasio, aka Pietro Petastasio, pseudonymn for Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi NULL

O, how full of error is the judgment of mankind. They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. They call it fortune when they know not the cause, and thus worship their own ignorance changed into a deity.

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Christopher Morley, fully Christopher Darlington Morley

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in the darkest hiding-place, your own heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light.

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Donn Piatt

A man selects his enemies, his friends make themselves, and from these friends he is apt to suffer.

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William Penn

Death is but crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas.

Death | Wisdom | World | Friends |

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Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.

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William Sansom

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.

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Irwin Sarason

Good friends are good for your health.

Good | Health | Wisdom | Friends |

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Sa'di (or Saadi), pen name of Abū-Muḥammad Muṣliḥ al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, born Muslih-uddin NULL

To be confined by the feet with friends is better than to walk in a garden with strangers.

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