Exaggerating Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exaggerating Exaggeration Exaggeration is Function Vices Virtuous
Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
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No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
We have no idea how much the government knows and how much the CIA even knows about average citizens. The government is not supposed… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Exaggerating?" Silk sounded shocked. "You don't mean to say that horses can actually lie, do you? Hettar shrugged. "Of course. They lie all the… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
