Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Friendship.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by
fiend, by prayer or by wine.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him I may think aloud.
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.
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Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Good bye, proud world!
I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find
in fragments.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.
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Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.