Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About True Friends

• The only way to have a friend is to be one.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Friendship, True Friend

  Essays "Friendship" (1841)

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Best Friend, Friendship, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.195, Harvard University Press

• The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Wise, True Friend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Myerson (2013). “The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.121, Columbia University Press

• It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, True Friend, Stupid

• True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  True Friend, Two, People

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