Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Friends

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

• 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 to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Family, Trust

• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103

• He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Enemy

  "The Conduct of Life". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Considerations By the Way", 1860.

• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Friendship'.

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

• 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 the hope of the heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friends, Heart

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

• A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

• Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Exercise, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.65, 谷月社

• 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

• 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

• Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Weed, House

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Friends, Self

  "Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson".

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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”

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