Friends Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

54 Friends quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Friends come unsought, like a gift from a higher power. Emerson writes that a few close friends are enough to fill our thoughts and hearts. He also urges us to visit them often, because empty paths become overgrown and keep them alive.

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Treat your friend as a spectacle.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!

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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.

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The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

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You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

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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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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

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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…

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

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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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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall…

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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…

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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink…

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We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they…

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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…

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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly…

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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it…

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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…

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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…

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of…

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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that…

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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood…

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The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.…

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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…

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Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own.…

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O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee…

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

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A friend is the hope of the heart.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

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We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

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My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

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God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be…

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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

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