Neighbors

(23 votes)   Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

Louise Beal

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(244 votes)   A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(181 votes)   Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(171 votes)   Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.

Franklin P. Jones

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(117 votes)   To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(112 votes)   In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(107 votes)   As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(100 votes)   Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(99 votes)   Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author

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(98 votes)   In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters
American Author, Lecturer, Playwright

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(91 votes)   Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(86 votes)   Good fences make good neighbors.

Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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(84 votes)   Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(82 votes)   Your neighbor is the man who needs you.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(81 votes)   If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well. [James 2:8]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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