I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone. In… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested,--"But… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
