See how God ever like with like doth pair, And still the worthless doth the worthless lead!
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
The older I get, the more I realize how rare it is to meet a kindred spirit.
People, like water, seek their own level.
There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."
I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.
But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat., Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est.]
If I like something, it seems a pretty good bet that other people will, too.
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
Some people say that you should read people who think completely differently from you so that everything you read and everything that they say is a challenge to you but there's something to be said for reading people where you think, 'Yes, that's how I would have said it if I could have found the words for it'.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.
Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
There are certain people you feel like you've known for a long time from the moment you meet them, and that's exactly how it was with Gaga.
I don't know how all of my friends vote; it doesn't come up. But it would be a lie to say that I don't surround myself with people who have a similar moral code to mine.
