Excess Quotes
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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
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We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.
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Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?
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Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.
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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
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When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
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I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.
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For our excess we lost everything.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue, for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.
