Ralph Waldo Emerson on friendship
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
AeschylusAeschylus The joy of learning and playing in school with friends is what the fondest memories are about.
Sachin TendulkarSachin Tendulkar Friendship is two-sided. It isn’t a friend just because someone’s doing something nice for you. That’s a nice person. There’s friendship when you do for each other. It’s like marriage – it’s two-sided.
John WoodenJohn Wooden The most influential people in my life have always been women. My family, my friends, my teachers, my colleagues, and my idols.
AdeleAdele I love my friends so much.
AdeleAdele Don’t forget to tell these special people in your life just how special they are to you.
Bob RossBob Ross I don’t mind it. My friends think it’s kind of rude of the people to come up to me and treat me like an object.
Lil PeepLil Peep Humans are humans. If somebody’s mean to you, it’s not gonna feel good – no matter if you’re a man or a woman.
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