More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Essays
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Letters and Social Aims (1876)
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The days … come and go like muffled and veiled figures, sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
Society and Solitude (1870), Works and Days
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.