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Friendship quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“the only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

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