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- When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb
- You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
- It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
- John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
- Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
- Thomas Guthrie
- He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.
- Pierre Charron
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