"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
henry david thoreau
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then."
henry david thoreau
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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language."
henry david thoreau
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"Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours."
henry david thoreau
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."
henry david thoreau
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"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
