Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Lying Quotes

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

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My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

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It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

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For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

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These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

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Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

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We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

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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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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

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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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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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