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The quotations of

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher

1803–1882

102 quotes, most often on Friendship, Nature and Beauty. Part of the Poets collection.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Friendship
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Essays
- Friendship
A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
- Friendship
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we know.
- Friendship
A friend is the hope of the heart.
- Friendship
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Society and Solitude (1870), Domestic Life
- Friendship
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, — “Let there be truth between us two forevermore”.
The Conduct of Life (1860), Behavior
- Friendship
- Truth & Lies

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