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   Friendship is determined, according to Emerson, by an objective and inherent compatibility between people, determined not by will or choice, but by fate. If two people both carry some aspect of the “Deity”—by which Emerson presumably means the divine forces that animate nature and human beings—they experience a kind of fusing of souls.

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     Friendship requires that rare mean betwixt likeness and...

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     In “Friendship,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in the first...

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     Friendship Summary. Emerson ’s “Friendship” is a...

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2. emersoncentral.com › friendship'Friendship' by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Full Text & Analysis

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   Friendship Summary: "Friendship" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that was first published in 1841. In this work, Emerson reflects on the nature of friendship and its role in human life. He argues that true friendship is based on mutual respect and understanding, and is characterized by a deep and genuine affection between individuals.

3. www.themarginalian.org › 13 › emerson-on-friendshipEmerson on the Two Pillars of Friendship

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   Aug 13, 2014 · Emerson ends by considering the dual art of what it takes to have a friend and to be one: Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. The only reward of virtue, is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

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   Friendship. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Friendship”—along with others such as “History,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Circles,” was published in Essays: First Series in 1841. Although originally intended as a lecture, “Friendship” was never delivered before a public audience. Instead, it remains one of Emerson’s most notable ...

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   Love and friendship, according to Emerson, is as holy as the divinity he envisions in nature. In the final lines of his essay, he states that true friendship is when one friend “deifies” the other, meaning that one individual looks onto the other with the reverence and veneration as a human looking to a spiritual being.

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   Friendship Summary. Emerson ’s “Friendship” is a philosophical essay about the ideal form of human interaction. The essay contrasts the superficial relationships that people tend to define as friendships with the profound connections that truly deserve the name. As in his essay “Self-Reliance,” Emerson proclaims in “Friendship ...

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   How is friendship determined according to Emerson?

   • Friendship is determined, according to Emerson, by an objective and inherent compatibility between people, determined not by will or choice, but by fate. If two people both carry some aspect of the “Deity”—by which Emerson presumably means the divine forces that animate nature and human beings—they experience a kind of fusing of souls.

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   What does Ralph Waldo Emerson say about friendship?

   • "Friendship" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that was first published in 1841. In this work, Emerson reflects on the nature of friendship and its role in human life. He argues that true friendship is based on mutual respect and understanding, and is characterized by a deep and genuine affection between individuals.

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   What is Emerson's essay about friendship?

   • Instead, it remains one of Emerson’s most notable published essays. Emerson draws on correspondences with friends and personal journal entries to provide readers with insight on the various facets of his friendships. He touches on themes such as the process of building meaningful bonds as well as the paradoxical nature of friendship.

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   Does Emerson have an ideal friendship?

   • Although Emerson has been optimistic throughout the essay, here he admits that the ideal friendship he has established is only rarely found. It is, after all, an ideal. But even the rarity of true friendship has benefits in Emerson’s view, because it allows one to mature and develop before the encounter that might lead to friendship.

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   Did Emerson give a lecture on friendship?

   • Although originally intended as a lecture, “Friendship” was never delivered before a public audience. Instead, it remains one of Emerson’s most notable published essays. Emerson draws on correspondences with friends and personal journal entries to provide readers with insight on the various facets of his friendships.

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   How does Emerson feel about friends?

   • The lover knows that his beloved is partially a product of his imagination, and even in the “golden hour of friendship” Emerson feels traces of suspicion about the qualities he admires in his friends, questioning whether he himself endows them with these qualities.

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8. www.cambridge.org › core › booksFriendship (Chapter 19) - Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context

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   Part I Emerson and a Sense of Place(s) Part II Emerson and Ideas: “The Wide World” Part III Emerson and Society: “Hodiernal Circles” 17 Life against Death; 18 Family; 19 Friendship; 20 Ethics; 21 Clubs; 22 Gender; 23 Race; 24 Reform; 25 Money; 26 Publishers; Part IV Emerson and His Legacies: From Infidel to Icon; Index