More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
  2. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
  3. Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
  4. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
  5. Almost all people descend to meet.
  6. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
  7. Thou art to me a delicious torment.
  8. My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find t…

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