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Quotes About Kindness

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.
~ Sasha Azevedo
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
~ Sarah Ellis
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
~ Unknown
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
~ Chilo
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
~ Lucan
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
~ Eustace Budgell
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
~ Charles Kingsley
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
~ Unknown
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
~ Ernie Banks
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
~ Jane Austen
The good man is the friend of all living things
~ Mahatma Gandhi
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh
~ Koran
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
~ Unknown
Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?
~ Dag Hammarskjold
He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.
~ Montaigne
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
~ Unknown
Good friends have a way of bringing out the best in you By their caring and the interest that they take in all you do
~ Unknown