“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”
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Henry David Thoreau 385
1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes

Burial of the Dead reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

On America, in Remembrance Rock (1948), epilogue, Ch. 2, p. 1001.

“In life we never lose friends. We only learn what are the real we have.”
Original: (it) Nella vita non perdiamo mai amici. Apprendiamo solo quali sono i veri che abbiamo.
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“Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

Quoted in [Richard C. Reuben, Man in the Middle, California Lawyer, October 1992, 35]
Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
Source: Trying to Save Piggy Sneed