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Letter "E" » excess
«In charity there is no excess.»
«I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.»
Author: Henry James
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
chilled, chills, embrace, excess, occasions, possibilities, responsive
«He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.»
«Let's not quibble! 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..»
«If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
appetite, excess, play on, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, surfeit, surfeiting
«His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, and th' excess / Of glory obscured.»
«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.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Evil
| Keywords:
announces, announcing, battling, conceals, excess, half-truth, moderate, moderated, moderating, presenting, The Other Half, wrath
«Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Excess,
Moderation
| Keywords:
excess, moderation
«My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry to excess.»
«Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Excess,
Funny,
Moderation,
Success
| Keywords:
excess, fatal, is a, like, moderation, nothing, succeeds, thing, with moderation
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