My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.
Samuel JohnsonTags: excess language appropriateness cant expression moderation thought
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne SextonTags: poetry moderation exuberance poem poets saints
Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.
Tags: wisdom pain sleep suffering moderation memory gods favors
I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.
Koren ZailckasTags: moderation alcohol
Moderation in all things, especially moderation.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: moderation
Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel ButlerTags: moderation fatalism philosophicaloutlookonlife
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Laurence SterneTags: moderation dissipation health-nuts philosophical-outlook-on-life
Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...
Milan KunderaTags: history cynicism faith dogma moderation pragmatism philosophicaloutlookonlife machiavellian
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.
Flann O'BrienTags: moderation ireland
Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
William S. BurroughsTags: moderation
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