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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."
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"The remedy is worse than the disease."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"You know, as long as you do everything in moderation, you don't go overboard, you don't, you know, turn your lips into guppy lips - I mean, a little zip or a little zap, that is not a big deal."
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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
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"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
Ambition
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Wisdom
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Morality
"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found."
Literature
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Humility
"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."
Criticism
"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Education
"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
Honor
"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."
Passion
"Passions are the gales of life."
Passion
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