More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. Almost all people descend to meet.
  2. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
  3. Thou art to me a delicious torment.
  4. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
  5. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
  6. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
  7. 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…
  8. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

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