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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson. (1803–1882) (continued)
 
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      A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
          Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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      Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
          Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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      Thou art to me a delicious torment.
          Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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      The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
          Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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      The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
          Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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      And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, “All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.”
          Essays. First Series. New England Reformers.
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      The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
          Essays. First Series. New England Reformers.
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      He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
          Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.
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      Every hero becomes a bore at last.
          Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.
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      Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? 1 
          Representative Men. Montaigne.
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      Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
          Representative Men. Shakespeare.
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      The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
          English Traits. Race.
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      I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes.
          English Traits. Manners.
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      A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
          English Traits. Aristocracy.
 
Note 1.
See Davies, page 176. [back]