Generosity
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Louis Ocepek

“Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the
world without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still
necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of
direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight
generosity, a drop too much. ……We aim above the mark, to hit the mark.”

From Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Nature, 1844 .