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Tag: sincerity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book Bits

True Relations in a False Age – Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

For the former Unitarian minister, relations with other people evoke in us the call towards both truth and tenderness, asking at their highest level not for daintiness, but for the 'roughest courage.

Tagged Courage, friendship, hipocrisy, love, Relationships, sincerity, Transcendentalism, truth3 Comments

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