27 DEEP FRIENDSHIP QUOTES OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two or more people. Having a friend is one of the greatest gifts of life. "A life without friendship is a life without significance". (John Arthur).

These twenty-seven (27) friendship quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, will unleash the prowess of your friendship relationships.

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27 DEEP FRIENDSHIP QUOTES OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Enjoy each of these quotes from our great lecturer.

1. "Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

2. "Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

3. "Our 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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. "The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. "I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine --and a property in his virtues." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

6. "The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

7. "I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults over the moon." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

8. "My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

9. "Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

10. "A friend … is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

11. "A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

12. "I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

13. "Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

14. "Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

15. "The only way to have a friend is to be one. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

16. "I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

17. "The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

18. "Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

19. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

20. "Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

21. "Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

22. "Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

23. "Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

25. "Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.