"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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More Every Vice Quotes
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Every vice has its excuse ready.
— Publilius Syrus
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an…
— George Grosz
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Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will…
— Polycarp
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Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
— C.S. Lewis
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Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of…
— Marcel Proust
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To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has…
— Primo Levi
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
— Will Durant
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human…
— Charles Dickens
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You know, I heard that death panel argument from Sarah Palin. It seems every vice presidential debate I hear this…
— Joe Biden
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