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Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.
There is just so much excess in terms of the market for self-remodeling. I think most women are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful the way they are.
As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
I don't necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that's with some good things too.
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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?
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
Pincurling is my secret! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don't have to use all that excess heat every day trying to curl it; I just pincurl it.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.
Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there's a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
Beyond helping people have a richer social life, Uber's also a model of collaborative commerce and efficiently tackling excess capacity.
A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.
We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking, but you can't let them drive you completely.
There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.
I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.
The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.
I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.
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.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.
O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
I've always had these morals I've sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating