 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...in us to the same degree it is in them : then shall we meet as water with water : and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...their friend each loved his own soul The higher the stylb we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. We walk... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...in us to the same degree it is in them : then shall we meet as water with water : and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they wouH signify that in their friend each loved his own soul The higher the stylt we demand of friendship,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them, then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. " Only be admonished by what you already see not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them, then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. •* * # * "Only be admonished by what you already see not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap... | |
 | Sayings - 1864 - 152 pages
...notion of self-interest. Where shall we find a truer definition ? " In the last analysis," says Emerson, "love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men :" or, as Jeremy Taylor puts it, " As any man hath anything of the good, so he can have and must have... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...in us to the same degree it is in them ; then shall we meet as water with water ; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...friends, as if they would signify that in their friend cadi loved his own soul. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. lu the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Men have... | |
 | 1877 - 574 pages
...Diirer's stchiDgs can be obtained. HENRY AC TOMKINS. Trin. Coll , Cambridge. EXCHANGE OF NAMES. — " Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends,...signify that in their friend each loved his own soul." — Emerson, Friendship ( Bonn's ed., i. 90). What men have ever made this exchange ? AL MATHEW. Osford.... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1886 - 152 pages
...selflessness, and the high standard for all honorAnd we know so well the truth of Emerson's other word, that " in the last analysis love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men"—know that so well that, in a half-fear lest we should gain under false pretenses the love we... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 pages
...in us to the same degree it is in them ; then shall we meet as water with water ; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...signify that in their friend each loved his own soul, r- ' The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course the less easy to establish it with flesh... | |
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... no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, —but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should... 
