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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Long, Serious
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.273

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Memories, Blessing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Children, Future
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Book, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.90

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Friendship, Reflection
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Two, World
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.254, Harvard University Press

Then, though I prize my friends, I cannot afford to talk with them and study their visions, lest I lose my own. It would indeed give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking, this spiritual astronomy, or search of stars, and come down to warm sympathies with you; but then I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Spiritual, Stars
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1347, Delphi Classics

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, True Friend, Stupid

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, House, Shelter
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1341, Delphi Classics

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1340, Delphi Classics

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Should, Ceremony
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Men, Busy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Real, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.347, Library of America

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

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

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Love Is, Games

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Selfish, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.448, Modern Library

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

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Friendship, Death
'Good-bye' (1847)

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?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Encouragement, Destiny
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Hate, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). “Essays”, p.171

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Sex, Wall
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Trust, Essence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Pride, Accomplishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1339, Delphi Classics

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