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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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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 best things carried to excess are wrong."
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"Discipline is needed in our temperance."
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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."
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"Moderation in all things."
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"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
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"I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them."
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science
"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
Cause
"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"
Friendship
"I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another."
Freedom
"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."
Love
"To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others."
Religion
"One man with courage is a majority."
Courage
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
Freedom
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
Wisdom
"...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans."
Politics
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