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• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joy, Sorrow, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.259, The Floating Press

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The best things carried to excess are wrong.

  Charles Churchill

  Best Things

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.35

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• The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

  David Korten

  Defense, Study, Economics

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• In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

  Plautus

  Trouble, Middle, Courses

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• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  Camille Paglia

  Generations, Liberalism, Destroyed

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• Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

  Adam Smith

  Fear, Vices, Regulation

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• In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Law, Punishment

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.159

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• Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

  Edwin Land

  Hard Work, Anything Worth Doing

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• This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

  Jacques Delors

  Desire, Welfare, Responsible

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• When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

  Euripides

  Love, Men, Honor

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

  Horace

  Depressing, Mind, Body

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• Never order food in excess of your body weight.

  Erma Bombeck

  Badass, Body Weight, Order

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• Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

  Joseph Joubert

  Delight, Deprived

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Quality, Very Good

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• Allow not nature more than nature needs.

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, Lear, Cordelia

  William Shakespeare, Frank Green (2000). “King Lear”, p.111, Heinemann

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• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Edges

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.300, Library of America

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• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Belief

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.47, Random House

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• 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

  John Selden

  Drinking, Alcohol, Alcoholism

  "English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834".

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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.

  John Henry Newman

  Evil, Substance, Corruption

  John Henry Newman, Dave Armstrong (2012). “The Quotable Newman: A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas”, p.151, Sophia Institute Press

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• What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

  Jean Anouilh

  Fun, Long, Would Be

  Jean Anouilh (1952). “Ring Round the Moon”, p.40, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Causes, Wealth, Prosperity

  Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2009). “The Jew of Malta”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Identity, Lines

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

  George Will

  Admirable, Overreaching

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Two, Enemy

  During a panel discussion in ABC News Viewpoint following the TV movie "The Day After", November 20, 1983.

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