"All loss, all pain, is particular; the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.
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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”
“In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.”
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.”
More on Suffering
“Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.”
“Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.”
“You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
More on Loss
“I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.”
“And writers say, as the most forward budIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,Even so by love the young and tender witIs turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,Losing his verdure even in the prime,And all the fair effects of future hopes.”
“If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.”