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" I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. "
For Friendship's Sake ...: Emerson, Lubbock, Bacon, Etc - Page 29
1900 - 90 pages
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a rnanly e of the discourses there, and the drinking of the hemlock, That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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Golden friendships: sketches of the lives and characters of friends

F L. Clarke - 1884 - 278 pages
...sympathy. I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance. Let him not cease one instant to be himself. Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. . . " Friendship demands a religious treatment. We must not be wilful, we must not provide. We talk...
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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 19

1896 - 900 pages
...What Emerson says of friendship is especially true of the friendship of college boys and girls : " The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. There must be very two, before there can be very one. Let us buy our entrance to this guild by a long...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not tnine is mine. I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. That high office requires great and sublime parts. There must be very two, before there can be very...
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The Speaker's Garland, Volume 7

P. Garrett - 1888 - 952 pages
...on, sad heart, courageously ; And thou shall find thy dream to be A noon-day light and truth to thee! Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Emerson. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice,...
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Wisdom of the Wise: Pithy and Pointed Sayings of the Best Authors

Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 116 pages
...friends, without speaking a word to each other, can nevertheless find happiness in being together." Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. R. w. EMERSON. " True friendship's laws are by this law expressed : Welcome the coming, speed the parting...
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Practical Ethics

William De Witt Hyde - 1892 - 234 pages
...to be himself. The only joy I have in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine. I hate where I looked for a manly furtherance, or at least a manly...high friendship demands is ability to do without it. There must be very two, before there can be very one. Let it be an alliance of two large formidable...
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