Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Interpretation
Regularly visiting friends fosters strong relationships and prevents distance from growing.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of maintaining friendships through regular connection and visits. Just as an unused path can become overgrown with weeds, a friendship can weaken and fade if not tended to through interaction and visits.
In practice
During a speech about the importance of friendships, one might say, 'As Ralph Waldo Emerson wisely noted, we must go oft to the house of our friends.'
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word
God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.
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