Friendship * * * is a long ...

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
 Jean de la Bruyere

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
 Jean de La Bruyère
Love and friendship exclude each other.
 Jean de La Bruyère
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
 Jean de la Bruyere
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
 Jean de la Bruyere
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
 Jean de la Bruyere