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It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.
William Blake Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion · 1804

Quotes

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Lend money to an enemy, and thou’lt gain him, to a friend and thou’lt lose him.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend; but thou may’st a friend into an enemy.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“To be intimate with a foolish friend, is like going to bed with a razor.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend!”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“We must be our own [friend] before we can be another’s.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Friendship, 1841 · Primary source

“For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles, 1841 · Primary source

“Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity”

William Blake · Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, 1804 · Primary source

Works

Amelia Earhart · 1928
20 Hrs. 40 Min.

Earhart’s account of the 1928 transatlantic flight that made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic by aeroplane.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Friendship

An examination of friendship as a relationship founded on sincerity, mutual respect, independence, trust, and the recognition of another person’s character.

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