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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Half, Ransom, Sober

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• The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Husband, Wife, Faults

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• Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

  Charlie Sheen

  Foundation, Males, Looks

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

  James Payn

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Prayer can never be in excess.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Breathing, Balance

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Men, Class

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• He who holds on to the Way seeks no excess. Since he lacks excess, he can grow old in no need to be renewed.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Needs, Way

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• Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

  Rembrandt

  Kindness, Faces, Violence

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• The excess of pleasure is pain

  Almeida Garrett

  Pain, Pleasure

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• Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Lust, Human Nature, Shame

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• The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

  Michelangelo

  Ideas, Stones, Remove

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• Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

  Aristotle

  Quality, Moral, Virtue

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.35, Wordsworth Editions

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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• One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, World, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.380

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• Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

  William Penn

  World, Naked, Vain

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mind, Exciting, Motive

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.315

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• Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

  Bill Vaughan

  Balance, Too Much, Chaos

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• The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Waste, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.51

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• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Driven, Pursue

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• The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Fall, Angel

  Francis Bacon (2016). “Essays”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Father, Italian

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

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• I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

  Jen Lancaster

  Lazy, Movement

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.15, Penguin

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so many honest lives, and then with the insane nuclear arms race and confrontations.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Race, Tolerance, Insane

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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