Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Friends Quotes

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

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Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

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BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

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. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

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Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

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If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

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All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

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Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

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For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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A friend to all is a friend to none.

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Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

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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.

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