Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Friendship
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In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
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Friendship buys friendship.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.
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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.
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I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .
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We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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