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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
"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."
"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."
"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions."
"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
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