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History: Ralph
Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 This
is a quotation from Emerson’s Book of Essays, published in 1841. Emerson was
the leading American essayist of his day. Born in Boston, MA, he came from
a long line of ministers, Emerson himself becoming a minister in the
Second Unitarian Church of Boston in 1829. He became a central figure of
the philosophical movement known as transcendentalism, which held that
reality is essentially mental or spiritual in nature. His poems, orations,
and especially his essays, such as Nature (1836), are regarded as
landmarks in the 19th century development of American thought and literary
expression. Whatever Emerson’s philosophical reasoning, this quotation
abut the value and meaning of friendship is one upon which we all may
agree.
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