We have vastly more kindness than is ever spoken

We have vastly more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons I meet in houses whom I scarcely speak to, who yet honor me & I them. How many I see in the street or sit with in the Church whom I warmly rejoice to be with. The heart knoweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:384

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