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For Friendship's Sake ...: Emerson, Lubbock, Bacon, Etc - Page 29
1900 - 90 pages
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Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pages
...must explore — if it be goodness. 4. Jfa author was ever written dotcn, by any but himself. 6 Belter be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. 6. Surmise is the gossamer, thiit malice blows on fair repmntian; the corroding dew, that destroys...
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Letters from New York

Lydia Maria Child - 1845 - 310 pages
...look to friendship as a firm rock to sustain me in moral emergencies, I should find it nothing but a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of my friend, than to be merely his echo.' As thou wouldst be true to thy friend, be so likewise to thy...
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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...must explore — if it be goodness. 4. JVo author was ever written down, by any but himself. 5. Betler be a nettle in the side of your friend, than his echo. 6. Surmise is the gossamer, that malice blows on fair reputation ; the corroding dew, that destroys...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two before there can be very...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 454 pages
...his being mine is that the not mine is mine. It turns the stomach, it blots the daylight — when I looked for a manly furtherance, or, at least, a manly...resistance — to find a mush of concession. Better be a \ in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is, ability...
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The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America, Volume 1

Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...his being mine is that the not mine is mine. It turns the stomach, it blots the daylight — when I looked for a manly furtherance, or, at least, a manly...to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in theside of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is, ability to do...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. 1 hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least\ a manly.../"/Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than hisV'^ ( echo. The condition which high friendship de- ' mands is ability to do without it. That high...
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