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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Kindness, Compassion

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Kindness, Joy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Mean, Men

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Wind, Selfishness

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Time, Kindness
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.46, Harvard University Press

So . . . I feel in regard to this aged England . . . pressed upon by transitions of trade and . . . competing populations,-I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well remembering that she has seen dark days before;-indeed, with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day, and that, in storm of battle and calamity, she has a secret vigor and a pulse like a cannon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Dark, Secret

Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life, Kindness, Live Life

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Independence, Unions
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.350, Modern Library

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness, Kindness, Deals
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and customs. It is not quite sufficient to good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautiful, Kindness, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.88, 谷月社

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Kindness, Philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.366

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Evil, Benefits
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.121, Courier Corporation

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Heart, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.341, Library of America

An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, Eye, Heart

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