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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes about friends

American Poet, Writer, Philosopher May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882

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Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends,..."
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more..."
A sunset a forest a snow storm a certain river view are more to me than many friends. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation."
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them..."
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford..."
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,—some of them,—and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten... Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing.And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused..."
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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