More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Thou art to me a delicious torment.
  2. Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
  3. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
  4. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
  5. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by…
  6. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
  7. Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff.
  8. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

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