 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 112by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rutherford B. Hayes - 1925 - 686 pages
...interesting. I believe in the friendship which Emerson describes in the finest, perhaps, of his essays. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. . . . Almost every man we meet requires some civility — requires to be humored ; he has some fame,... | |
 | George Walter Fiske - 1922 - 316 pages
...word is "trust." Only in mutual trust and confidence can friendship be perfected. Emerson once said: "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." We need trustworthy friends to help deepen our characters by sharing with each other our frank confidences,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...named. One is Truth. A friend is a personjwith whomjjnayjie sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. T~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 put off, and may... | |
 | 1923 - 692 pages
...who feel like crying, "Enough, Enough," pray do not hesitate to do so, for I feel with Emerson that ''a friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud," and I may not know enough to stop until you tell me to do so. We have gone as far as Italy — and... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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... | |
 | Ohio Historical Society - 1925 - 682 pages
...interesting. I believe in the friendship which Emerson describes in the finest, perhaps, of his essays. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. . . . Almost every man we meet requires some civility — requires to be humored ; he has some fame,... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 pages
...reason why either should be first named. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may hp sinr<-rp Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last...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... | |
 | 1925 - 832 pages
...childdevelopment. They choose such quotations from Emerson as, "To have a friend one must be one," and "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." They disagree violently, and rightly, with such statements as, "I do with my friends as I do with my... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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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