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There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we're called on to lend one.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

I don’t know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice.

Fire and water themselves, to use a common expression, are not of more universal use than friendship.

We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us, as to society

In love there is no first nor last!

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another--until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Think only when you see me, that you see a man who loves you, and is proud and glad that you love him.

If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.

Two heads are better than one.

Many hands make light work.

One good turn deserves another.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.