QUOTES by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
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I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know.
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Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection. The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought or happy expression; but it is necessary to write a letter to a friend, and, forthwith, troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves, on every hand, with chosen words.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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Friends seem to be only mirrors to draw out and explain to us ourselves; and that which draws us nearer our fellow man, is, that the deep Heart in one, answers the deep Heart in another, — that we find we have (a common Nature) — one life which runs through all individuals, and which is indeed Divine.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, “Let there be truth between us two forever more”.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
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Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
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Can another be so blessed, and we so pure, that we can offer him tenderness? When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune.
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The other element of friendship is tenderness. We are holden to men by every sort of tie, by blood, by pride, by fear, by hope, by lucre, by lust, by hate, by admiration, by every circumstance and badge and trifle, but we can scarce believe that so much character can subsist in another as to draw us by love.
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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.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
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We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, obey thyself.
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.
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Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
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The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.
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Character is higher than intellect.[…] A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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Success treads on every right step. For the instinct is sure, that prompts him to tell his brother what he thinks. He then learns, that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.
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