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Moderation Quotes
"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."
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"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
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"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
60
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
46
"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
45
"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
38
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
33
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
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"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."
30
"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."
28
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
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"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
24
"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
22
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."
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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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"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
20
"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
20
"Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending."
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"The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice."
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"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
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"I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time."
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"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."
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"This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you."
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"Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul."
18
"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."
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"We never repent of having eaten too little."
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"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
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"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
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"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
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"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues."
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"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
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"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."
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"Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem."
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"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
12
"Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control."
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"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."
12
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
10
"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
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