Did Ralph Waldo Emerson say “The only way to have a friend is to be one”?

Did Ralph Waldo Emerson say “The only way to have a friend is to be one”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Source and location below.

… 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. You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike, his soul only flees the faster from you, and you shall catch never a true glance of his eye. We see the noble afar off, and they repel us; why should we intrude? Late,--very late,--we perceive that no arrangements, no introductions, no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire,--but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degre …
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson, ¶257 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #16643 · source

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