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" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never... "
An Emerson Calendar - Page 112
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pages
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...ority in either, no reason why either should be first i named. One is truth. A friend is a person withy whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud....a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may...
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The Life of Gilbert Haven: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

George Prentice - 1883 - 558 pages
...could never go beyond this point, and these never became really his intimates. He said, like Emerson, " A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation,...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may...
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Biennial report of the Kansas State Board of Health. 1922/24

1925 - 502 pages
...220 The Measure of a Man - 221 It's Pyorrhea ! 222 "Tin Lirzie" 222 Use Your Head I28 Persistency 228 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere; before whom I may think aloud. — Emerson. Thrift in the care of health, as in business, assures a surplus...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may...
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Friendship

1890 - 124 pages
...that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Be ' fore him, I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the...man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may...
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Borrowings

First Unitarian Church of Oakland, Calif. Ladies - 1891 - 96 pages
...Newton. To have what we want, is riches; but to be able to do without, is power. —George Macdonald. 20 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. —Emerson. Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats little things as little things. —Fenelon....
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After Many Days: An American Novel

Theodora B. Wilson, James Clarence Harvey - 1892 - 382 pages
...Taking it to the window, she saw that many passages were marked. Glancing through it, she read : — " A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere, before whom I may think aloud." Then, pencilled on the margin, " The spirit that prompted last night's outspokenness....
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Aspects of Judaism: Being Eighteen Sermons

Israel Abrahams, Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1895 - 280 pages
...or have lost those that they once had made. For what does friendship mean? "A friend," says Emerson, "is a person with whom I may be sincere ; before him I may think aloud." The Rabbis said the same thing. " Get a companion," they counsel us, " to whom you can tell all your...
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