Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
There is moderation even in excess.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
quote by Mark Twain
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
quote by Marcel Proust
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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
quote by Thomas Paine
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The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
quote by Donald Trump
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I Don't Know If History Repeats Itself
I don't Know if history repeats itself
But I do know that you don't.
I remember that city was divided
Not only between Jews and Arabs,
But Between me and you,
When we were there together.
We made ourselves a womb of dangers
We built ourselves a house of deadening wars
Like men of far north
Who build themselves a safe warm house of deadening ice.
The city has been reunited
But we haven't been there together.
By now I know
That History doesn't repeat itself,
As I always knew that you wouldn't.
poem by Yehuda Amichai
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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
quote by Eric Hoffer
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Her Only Bad Habit Is Me
We walk hand in hand
through our world today.
We will walk that way forever,
if bad habits don’t get in the way.
Now she has only one bad habit,
and that habit is me.
If I do something wrong,
she does not see my failing there.
She would rather go on loving,
the man she chose to care.
Now my bad habit shine like a beckon,
but she does not really care.
So though we wander with love,
through to the sunset somewhere.
I think of how lucky I am,
with everything I see.
So glad she has only one bad habit,
and that habit is me.
14 June 2007
poem by David Harris
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine in The Rights of Man (1792)
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
quote by Thomas Paine
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