Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Friendship
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The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.
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Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
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The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
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An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
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I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
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