 ... each stands for the whole world. What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to...  Essays, First Series - Page 170by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...characters analogous to one another. Finally, friendships like these are their own reward. As Emerson says: "The only reward of virtue is virtue: the only way to have a friend is to be a friend" (CW2, 124). 5 In conceiving of friendship's reward through the terms of ethos, Emerson actualizes... | |
 | John T. Lysaker - 2008 - 244 pages
...The best way to parry this charge, is to be deeply interested in another's welfare" (JMN3, 198-99). The only way to have a friend is to be one, you might recall, and this we do, in part, by proactively tending to each other. In other words, reciprocal... | |
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