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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
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But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19 -
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
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I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
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In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
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Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
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