Trust quotes

Romans 12:10 in the King James Version, in a sequence of instructions about sincere love, generosity, patience, and shared responsibility.

Lysis, around Stephanus 221e, Socrates addressing Lysis and Menexenus while exploring desire, affinity and friendship. Benjamin Jowett English, Project Gutenberg #1579. The dialogue goes on to challenge whether the congenial is simply the like and ends without reaching a settled definition; do not present the tentative argument as an unconditional fact.

Character Building, “Each One His Part,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington asks whether Tuskegee can educate an individual conscience that performs small duties thoroughly even when no audience is watching; the question closes that address’s argument about conscientious responsibility.

Persuasion, Chapter IV, Project Gutenberg #105. This is narrator commentary after Anne reconsiders the engagement she ended at nineteen under Lady Russell’s persuasion.

Romans 12:10 in the King James Version.

A Life for a Life, Project Gutenberg #48482. The passage belongs to the first-person narrator’s reflection after an unusually candid conversation with Doctor Urquhart; it is literary characterization of trusted friendship, not a clinical definition of emotional safety.

Shirley; fictional narrative description within the novel’s relationship context. The line describes a character’s restraint and must not be presented as a direct autobiographical maxim by Charlotte Brontë.

Character Building, “Keeping Your Word,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington directs the advice to Tuskegee students in the context of promptness and keeping commitments.

Northanger Abbey.

Barchester Towers, Chapter XXVII, ‘A Love Scene,’ Project Gutenberg #2432. Madeline Stanhope tells Mr Slope that there is no happiness in love except at the end of an English novel after a comic catalogue of tragic lovers. The sentence is witty fictional dialogue inside Trollope's satire, not a factual rule about love or happiness.

De Amicitia (Laelius de Amicitia), chapter 6 / classical section 20, Andrew P. Peabody translation, Project Gutenberg #7491. Laelius defines friendship as entire fellow feeling in human and divine things joined with mutual goodwill and affection. Cicero remains the work author while Gaius Laelius is the local dialogue speaker; this is ancient ethical-philosophical argument rather than a modern empirical definition of friendship.

Opening sentence of Chapter 1; the narrator immediately signals the novel’s social irony.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 3, Richard M. Gummere translation. Seneca immediately contrasts this with people who fear deception so strongly that their suspicions help teach others to deceive them.

Silas Marner; the narration emphasizes that Eppie’s attachment joins Silas not only to her but also to the social world from which he had retreated.

Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese; the poem proceeds by describing multiple dimensions of love.

Around the World in Eighty Days, final chapter, Project Gutenberg #103, in the represented public-domain English translation. This is the narrator’s comic-romantic conclusion after Phileas Fogg completes the journey; the English wording is translation-specific.

The Story of My Life; the sentence appears in Keller’s correspondence included in the volume.

The Golden Age, Project Gutenberg #53250. The passage is spoken by the narrator’s adult friend during a conversation about love; it is literary dialogue inside Grahame’s childhood-remembrance fiction rather than a sociological claim.

Philippians 2:3 in the King James Version.

The Railway Children, Project Gutenberg #1874. Bobbie says this to her mother after discussing relationships with people they have met; Mother answers “Perhaps you’re right,” preserving the line as hopeful fictional dialogue rather than an unconditional social rule.

Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill, Chapter 21, Project Gutenberg #38567. Charlie is trying to persuade Rose to choose a household after her guardianship question is raised.

The Lover: A Ballad, represented by the University of Toronto Representative Poetry Online text from Robert Dodsley’s 1748 A Collection of Poems by Several Hands. The line belongs to a lyric speaker weighing desire against the risk of later regret; it is not treated as a verbatim autobiographical confession by Montagu.

The Prophet, “On Love”; Gibran warns against turning love into possession before describing love as sufficient unto itself.

Proverbs 17:9 in the King James Version.

Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 3, Sebastian; 1922 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by George Henry Nettleton, printed page 56 / Wikisource scan leaf 68. Sebastian tells Antonio, “I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks,” after Antonio explains that concern for Sebastian’s safety drove him onward despite danger in Illyria. It remains fictional gratitude dialogue tied to Antonio’s costly loyalty, not Shakespeare autobiography.

Hebrews 10:24 in the King James Version, immediately before an appeal to continue gathering and encouraging one another.

Jo's Boys, Chapter 10, Project Gutenberg #3499. Mrs Meg is considering Daisy and Nat; the surrounding dialogue explicitly compares her choice with the freedom her own parents gave her.

The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Project Gutenberg #6688. Narrator commentary on Mrs Tulliver's work for Maggie; the period gender context remains part of the scene.

The Moonstone, Project Gutenberg #155. Franklin Blake narrates his attempt to recover after leaving England; the sentence continues by explaining the effects of time, distance and novelty. This is fictional reflection, not clinical guidance.

Letter 9 contrasts Stoic self-sufficiency with the continuing value of friendship.

Ephesians 4:25 in the King James Version.

Dhammapada, early verses in Max Müller’s translation; the passage contrasts retaliation with non-hatred.

Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill, Chapter 19, Project Gutenberg #38567. Narrator description contrasts Phebe's childhood without family with the Campbell household around her.

Jo's Boys, Chapter 4, Project Gutenberg #3499. Mrs Jo gives Dan a book that came from her own mother and speaks of both maternal bonds.

“The Greatest Thing in the World,” in The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses, Project Gutenberg #16739. Drummond explicitly places Humility among the “ingredients” of Christian love and glosses it as love that does not vaunt itself.

Romans 12:19, King James Version; Paul tells readers not to avenge themselves within a larger sequence about responding to enemies and evil.

Essays, “Of Friendship,” Project Gutenberg #56463. Bacon follows his contrast between crowds and real company by describing the absence of true friends as a deeper form of solitude.

An Essay on Criticism, in the passage warning against pride in judgment.

Letter 109 discusses how friendship and mutual conversation can benefit people committed to wisdom.

1 Corinthians 13:13 in the King James Version.