A Quote by Charles Churchill
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
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The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.
We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to
The wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place
At the wrong time
For the wrong reason
And the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day
Of the wrong week
Used the wrong method
With the wrong technique
Wrong
Wrong.
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.
When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.
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