Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 ... FRIENDSHIP. ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 ... FRIENDSHIP. ...
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... pass my gate . Who hears me , who understands me , becomes mine , a possession for all time . Nor is nature so poor , but she gives me this joy several times , and thus we weave social threads of our own , a FRIENDSHIP . 173.
... pass my gate . Who hears me , who understands me , becomes mine , a possession for all time . Nor is nature so poor , but she gives me this joy several times , and thus we weave social threads of our own , a FRIENDSHIP . 173.
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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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... 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 great , austere , and eternal , of one web with the ...
... 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 great , austere , and eternal , of one web with the ...
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... friendships daintily , but with roughest courage . When they are real , they are not glass threads or frost - work , but the solid- est thing we know . For now , after so many ages of experience , what do we know of ... FRIENDSHIP . 179.
... friendships daintily , but with roughest courage . When they are real , they are not glass threads or frost - work , but the solid- est thing we know . For now , after so many ages of experience , what do we know of ... FRIENDSHIP . 179.
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