Quotes with moderation

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  • Cat Stevens Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Robert E. Lee My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Robert Clive My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
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  • Jean Paul Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anne Sexton Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Seneca That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Aristotle The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Ciardi There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Blaise Pascal To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 3
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Mark Twain Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Edmund Burke Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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