Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes about Friends

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and

We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Beautiful, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.470

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Teach, My Friends

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.102, The Floating Press

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Thinking, Two

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.166, Columbia University Press

A friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.507, Library of America

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, People, Joy

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1888). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, L834-l872”

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Ocean, Ideas

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.232, Harvard University Press

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Friends, Treats

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Powerful, Doe

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Passion, Comedian

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.91

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Friends, Joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.96

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship, Friends, Men

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.48, Courier Corporation

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Dark, Friendly

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.123, Harvard University Press

A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Character, Fate

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Men, Sea

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Children, Father

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Art, Hero

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1365, Delphi Classics

O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Fate, Sky

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.248, Modern Library