"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 brot...
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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"As many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand in a new world of our own creation, and no longer strangers and pilgr...
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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"The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may ent...
"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes t...
"When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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"Life goes headlong. We chase some flying scheme, or we are hunted by some fear or command behind us. But if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; ...
"I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most va...
"We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting ...
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"Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into un...