 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...inslant 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...inslant 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...slant 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...instant 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... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...in 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...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...inslant 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... | |
 | 1867
...capable of doing without one is the way to retain him. Emerson has well said, that it is " better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. The condition which high friendship demands is, the ability to do without it." They who continually need expression and proofs of attachment, and who... | |
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I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. 
