 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make...an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real society. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth — " He who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1860 - 270 pages
...and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make ns do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With...an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real society. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth : — " He... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Conduct of life - 1861 - 320 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make...doors of existence ! "What questions we ask of him ! Avhat an understanding we o have ! how few words are needed ! It is the onlv V real society. An Eastern... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make...are easily great. There is a sublime attraction in tii'm to whatever virtue is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! What questions we ask... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make...understanding we have ! how few words are needed! It is the only real society. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth : — " He who... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life, is, somebody who shall make us do what wo can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great. There is a sublime attraction... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...barren hours. Add the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship. Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make...an understanding we have ! how few words are needed ! It is the only real eociety. An Eastern poet, All Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth : — " He... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...toil, an hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. d. EMERSON --('oHSK/eraiioiis by the Way. - «rreal. There is a sublime attraction in him to whatever virtue is in us. How he flings wide the doors... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...hour for sport, But for a friend is life too short. </. EMERSON — Considerations by the Way. Onr ^qI ` x& I f =ـ W (7C kҘ >ʔ ' < A*E @$ Wv 嗈% % @ L ^&s (•real. There is a sublime attraction in him to whatever virtue is in us. How he ilings wide the... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...quote a few sentences, worthy of Cicero or the Antonines, from the noble essay on Friendship — '• Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can : such a one is a friend. . . . He is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.... | |
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Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great. There is a sublime attraction in him to whatever virtue is in us. How he flings wide the doors of existence ! What questions... 
