 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...elsewhere, in other regions of the universal power, sou's are now acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us, and which we can love. We may congratulate... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...blood. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as w« desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course.... We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we \J desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere,... | |
 | 1868 - 402 pages
...experienced man, the intensest feeling is the shyest of betraying itself. Yet has Emerson written, " We walk alone in the world ; friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables." — "Alas! I know not why, but infinite compunctions imbitter in mature life the remembrances of budding... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...enduring and daring, which can love us and which we can love.1 We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage, of follies, of blunders and of shame,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...to establish it with flesh and blood. We walk alone iu the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...flesh and blood. We walk alone in the world. Friends, sucli as we desire, are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that... | |
 | William George Jordan, Adr Schade van Westrum - 1886 - 632 pages
...ever really loved any one will have some tenderness for all. I cannot then agree with Emerson that "we walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire...daring, which can love us and which we can love." Epictetus gives very good advice when he dissuades from conversation on the very subjects most commonly... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...Alas ! the gratitude of men Has oftener left me mourning." I cannot, then, agree with Emerson that "we walk alone in the world. Friends such as we desire...daring, which can love us, and which we can love." Epictetus gives very good advice when he dissuades from conversation on the very subjects most commonly... | |
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The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. We walk alone in the world. Friends . such as we desire are dreams and fables. But a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere,... 
