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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 toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Dream, Heart
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.113, Cosimo, Inc.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Law, Games
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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

We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Stars, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”

The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Demand, Ability
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.49, Coyote Canyon Press

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Inspiration, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.83, Harvard University Press

We never touch but at points.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Solitude
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.279, Harvard University Press

For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Stars, Sex
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.216

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Men, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1460, Delphi Classics

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Sleep, Yield
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1338, Delphi Classics

Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, League, No Friends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.51, Coyote Canyon Press

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Men, Names
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Eye, Moon
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.45, Courier Corporation

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Echoes, Sides
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.350, Library of America

Keep your friendships in repair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Patience
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Lying, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.954, Library of America

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Country, Men

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, Friends, Self
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