We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, then that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important Benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-truth is the essence of heroism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanity is very rare every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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