<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: Excess is bad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, how much food can man ingest a day? <br>When excess spells disease, shortens lifespan! <br>How much of drink can he consume en way? <br>When lips are no more parched and thirst leaves man! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much of luxury can man enjoy? <br>When pain threshold is falling day by day! <br>How much of sex can fill man’s heart with joy? <br>When lust unleashed, he cannot keep at bay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much desire can man satisfy? <br>For, time is short and vices strangle him! <br>How much of sins must man commit to die? <br>And make his life on Earth and Heaven dim.<br> <br>Good deeds and virtues, man must multiply! <br>Cost of the berth for Soul with One most High. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 5-23-2002 by Dr John Celes</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371270" data-title="Sonnet: Excess is bad de John Celes" data-description="Oh, how much food can man ingest a day? When excess spells disease, shortens lifespan! How much of drink can he consume en way? When lips are no more parched and thirst leaves man! How much of luxury can man enjoy? When pain threshold is fal..."></div> </div> </div>

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