Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous functio…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). The Journals
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.279, Library of America
An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. ✨ Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Always do what you are afraid to do. ✨ 'Essays' (1841) 'Heroism'

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). The Journals

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