Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Topic

Friendship

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.

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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic
Might makes right Justice American Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln
Source
Address at Cooper Institute, New York City
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Another quote about Friendship

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self. The ultimate touchstone is witness: the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whyte

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Topic
Nature of friendship Friendship Man as social animal

Author

David Whyte
Language
English
Time
2020 2020s 21st century
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Citation

Whyte, David. "Friendship." Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Canongate Books, 2020.

Another quote from 1864

Taste...Is the only morality...Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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Topic
Taste
Speaker
John Ruskin
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1864 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Traffic." c. 1864, Town Hall, Bradford, England, UK. Lecture.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Traffic. Penguin UK, 2015.