 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may...  Emerson - Página 207por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edwin Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 páginas
...rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful eo alone for a thousand years. There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship,...arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and vo equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought,... | |
 | Ohio Historical Society - 1925 - 682 páginas
...interesting. I believe in the friendship which Emerson describes in the finest, perhaps, of his essays. "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. . . . Almost every man we meet requires some civility — requires to be humored ; he has some fame,... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 páginas
...the speed in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness and the contempt of trifles. There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship,...One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may hp sinr<-rp Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and... | |
 | 1925 - 832 páginas
...childdevelopment. They choose such quotations from Emerson as, "To have a friend one must be one," and "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." They disagree violently, and rightly, with such statements as, "I do with my friends as I do with my... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1967 - 1010 páginas
...held, and breach of confidence violates social norms in a civilized society. "A friend," said Emerson, "is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."71 In addition, the individual often wants to secure counsel from persons with whom he does... | |
 | Georg Osterman - 1990 - 100 páginas
...calms himself.) HENRY. Ah, Bernice my dear friend. If only I could be honest with you. Emerson said, "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud." Do I have a friend who would not recoil with horror upon discovering my secret? When I befriended Hyde,... | |
 | Wayne W. Dyer - 1991 - 294 páginas
...Friendship sum this crucial point up so well that I used some of them in the dedication of this book: A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. In my experience with family and marriage counseling I have encountered very few families which use... | |
 | Kenneth Plummer - 1992 - 306 páginas
...power and potential of gay friendships. 119 CONCLUSIONS Emerson wrote in his essay on friendship that 'A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud' . This characterization is clearly one that describes the role of friendship in the lives of gay men... | |
 | Martin Orzeck, Robert Weisbuch - 1996 - 296 páginas
...Emily Dickinson, the ideal friend Ralph Waldo Emerson defined and described in his essay "Friendship": "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him [or her, in this case] I may think aloud."7 Most often Dickinson's richest relationships were sustained... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...songwriter. "Positively 4th Street" (song) (1965), re-released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (1967). 11 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, (1803-1882) US essayist, poet, philosopher. Essays, "Friendship," First Series... | |
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