Our kindred first. [ Chamfort ]
We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
The rich never want for kindred. [ Proverb ]
Friendship is stronger than kindred. [ Publius Syrus ]
Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one. [ William Cowper ]
Affinity in hearts is the nearest kindred. [ Proverb ]
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire,
As summer clouds flash forth electric fire. [ Rogers ]
My teeth are nearer to me than my kindred is. [ Proverb ]
A rascal grown rich has lost all his kindred. [ Proverb ]
Type of the wise who soar, but never roam,
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. [ Wordsworth ]
Sweet is the love of country, sweet to see one's kindred. [ Ovid ]
Wheresoever you see your kindred, make much of your friends. [ Proverb ]
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. [ Bovee ]
Let the white man's country be my country, and his kindred my kindred. [ Pocahontas ]
He that goes to church with brothers-in-law, comes back without kindred. [ Proverb ]
He that is poor, all his kindred scorn him; he that is rich, all are kin to him. [ Proverb ]
The parted bosom clings to wonted home, if aught that's kindred cheer the welcome hearth. [ Byron ]
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. [ Bacon ]
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men. [ Carlyle ]
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in the lives of particular persons, and therefore no species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]
We may be sure that cheerful beliefs about the unseen world, framed in full harmony with the beauty of the visible universe, and with the sweetness of domestic affections and joys, and held in company with kindred and friends, will illuminate the dark places on the pathway of earthly life and brighten all the road. [ Charles W. Eliot ]
In former days various superstitious rites were used to exorcise evil spirits, but in our times the same object is attained, and beyond comparison more effectually, by the press; before this talisman, ghosts, vampires, witches, and all their kindred tribes are driven from the land, never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so intolerable to them as the smell of printing ink. [ J. Bentham ]