#excess

Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11). ↗

— Randy Alcorn

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Art always springs from a surplus of life ↗

— Marty Rubin

#art #excess #art

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. ↗

— Plato

#individuals #into #liberty #lies #only

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#every #excess #however #itself #minds

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. ↗

— Will Durant

#basic principle #every #excess #form #government

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get

For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. ↗

— Tim Vine

#i #life #one thing #pun #real

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fatal #like #moderation #nothing #succeeds

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. ↗

— George Will

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