A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in Love and Friendship, a collection of essays on relationships. Before him, I may think aloud. I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
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" Well, it's Emerson, so there was bound to be some good stuff in it, but sometimes that transcendental stuff just gets too far afield for my tastes. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was a renowned lecturer and writer whose ideas on philosophy, religion, and literature influenced many writers, including Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. After an undergraduate career at Harvard, he studied at Harvard Divinity School and became an ordained minister. He led the transcendentalist movement in America in the mid-nineteenth century. He is perhaps most well known for his publications Essays and Nature.
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