More from Ralph Waldo Emerson

  1. 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…
  2. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
  3. 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.
  4. Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
  5. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
  6. Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
  7. Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
  8. Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

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