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Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY VI . FRIENDSHIP . WE have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken . Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world , the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY VI . FRIENDSHIP . WE have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken . Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world , the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ...
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... my friends , the old and the new . Shall I not call God the Beautiful , who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts ? I chide society , I embrace solitude , - and yet I am not so ungrateful as not 12 FRIENDSHIP . 177.
... my friends , the old and the new . Shall I not call God the Beautiful , who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts ? I chide society , I embrace solitude , - and yet I am not so ungrateful as not 12 FRIENDSHIP . 177.
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... Friendship , like the immortality of the soul , is too good to be believed . The lover , beholding his maiden , half knows that she is not verily that which he worships ; and in the golden hour of friendship , we are surprised with ...
... Friendship , like the immortality of the soul , is too good to be believed . The lover , beholding his maiden , half knows that she is not verily that which he worships ; and in the golden hour of friendship , we are surprised with ...
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... friendship , and if he should record his true sentiment , he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love . DEAR FRIEND : If I was sure of thee , sure of thy capacity , sure to match my mood with thine , I should ...
... friendship , and if he should record his true sentiment , he might write a letter like this to each new candidate for his love . DEAR FRIEND : If I was sure of thee , sure of thy capacity , sure to match my mood with thine , I should ...
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... friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions , because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams , instead of the tough fibre of the human heart . The laws of friendship are austere and eternal , of one web with the laws of ...
... friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions , because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams , instead of the tough fibre of the human heart . The laws of friendship are austere and eternal , of one web with the laws of ...
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