"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

Moderation, Virtue, Difference, Vice

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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Moderation, God, Appetite, Hair, Worry

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Moderation, End, Repression

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."

Charles Churchill, English Poet

Moderation, Excess, Wrong

"The remedy is worse than the disease."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Moderation, Disease

"Discipline is needed in our temperance."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Moderation, Discipline, Temperance, Self-Control, Balance

"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."

Joseph Hall, English Clergyman

Moderation, Running

"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."

Tacitus, Roman Historian

Moderation, Candor, Generosity, Ruin

"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Moderation, Heart

"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Moderation, Conversation, Wisdom, Balance

"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

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"A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity."

Curiosity, Business, Bees, Labor

"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance."

Progress, Men, Dance

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude."

Optimism, Man, Nothing

"At ev'ry word a reputation dies."

Reflection, Reputation, Word

"The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine."

Justice, Judges, May

"Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example."

Wisdom, Time, Men, Example, Fact

"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Art, Work, Theories

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

Freedom, Nature, God, Road

"And die of nothing but a rage to live."

Purpose, Nothing

"Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few."

Politics, Gain, Madness, Party