• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. discovery
2. esteemed
3. consumed
4. grosser
5. always

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The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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