When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
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In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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There is moderation even in excess.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
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In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one?s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (on J.D. Salinger)
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
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In the time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than 5,000 a year
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
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An excess of courtesy is discourtesy
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Crime is a product of social excess
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The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
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