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Quotes from Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

1803–1882 United States

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Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

Essays (1876)

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

Essays (1841)

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

Essays (1841)

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