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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Selfish Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Spiritual Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Exercise Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Law Quotes
  • Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Fire Quotes