A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Interpretation
The people we choose to associate with reflect our personal development.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the friends we surround ourselves with play a significant role in our growth as individuals. It implies that as we evolve in life, our friendships change, reflecting our values, aspirations, and the kind of person we are becoming. The idea is that those we choose to befriend can influence our journey, offering both support and challenges that encourage us to grow.
In practice
During a speech at a graduation ceremony, one could quote this to emphasize the importance of choosing supportive 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?
Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry's intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore's bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. "I am very touched, Harry.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
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