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Related FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused ma... FRANCIS BACON SR. FRANCIS BACON FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess. SIR FRANCIS BACON FRANCIS BACON, SR. In charity there is no excess. FRANCIS BACON SR. The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. SIDONIE GABRIELLE EURIPIDES PLATO XUN KUANG VOLTAIRE VOLTAIRE JAMES MADISON JAMES MADISON AESCHYLUS CARRIE FISHER CHARLES DICKENS the fall of man will not be a act of god, but a desire of man and the inability for man to reason SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All hail Queen charity for because of her,the rich now have where to invest their excess & unused fu... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) HIPPOCRATES NORMAN LEAR SOURCE UNKNOWN GREEK PROVERB MARK TWAIN In my opinion it's worth a significant amount more. It certainly is in excess of $50 million. It's p... BILL SAGAN CHARLES DICKENS The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look i... GEORGE WHITEFIELD Sometimes your fall is not caused by your enemies, but it is caused by your stupid actions, behavior... DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS THOMAS GRAY BENJAMIN DISRAELI Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. , FROM ROBERT HEINLEIN'S "TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE" ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ANDREW WEIL NEIL KINNOCK BLAISE PASCAL JOHN GREEN BILL WATTERSON GIACOMO CASANOVA I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But ... ESTHER DYSON WILLIAM BLAKE CLARENCE DAY MENANDER WILLIAM HAZLITT GERMAINE DE STAEL MADAME DE STAEL The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. ANNE LOUISE GERMAINE DE STAEL CONN IGGULDEN substantially in excess of the current share price. BRUCE SHERMAN RALPH BLUM MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY The market has factored in a lot of damage beforehand, in anticipation that this storm will equal or... CARL NEILL TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. CALVIN TRILLIN Excess is success. ROBERTO CAVALLI ANTHONY T. HINCKS PLAUTUS You're in a mess, and in excess. BILLY STRAYHORN STEPHEN RICHARDS WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The report is universally strong and is pointing to growth in excess of Greenspan's objectives. ANTHONY CRESCENZI JOHN SELDEN OSCAR WILDE SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) SENECA Sometime excess pain that we experience may be best reason for birth of our talent and sometime our ... RAJENDRA OJHA THOMAS à KEMPIS W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Excess of meats bringeth sickness BIBLE PLATO TALLULAH BANKHEAD OSCAR WILDE JEAN ANOUILH JOHN SELDEN JAPANESE PROVERB CHARLES CALEB COLTON OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a ye... A. F. ALHAJJI The bigger question is does OPEC have excess capacity that it can tap into in the longer-term, ... I... JASON SCHENKER JOHN MILTON The chipmakers are always the last guys to find out that there is excess inventory. The inventory si... BILL MCCLEAN The president is to be commended for going to a place where too much excess liability has dramatical... VICTOR SCHWARTZ The domestic manufacturers have capacity in excess of demand, so they have determined to lower price... TOM LIBBY I don't understand when there's excess capacity at mainland detention centers, why there's a need to... TONY BURKE This bill roots out excess lender subsidies in the student loan program while increasing student acc... DON SEYMOUR Obsessive compulsive behaviors tend to be repetitive behaviors that are seen in inappropriate situat... DR. BONNIE BEAVER We are in an intensely competitive industry. There is excess capacity. Carriers that can price produ... EDWARD BASTIAN Our sheet metal in Decatur, we've never reached what we believe to be the full capacity there, in ex... DAN DIMICCO Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne... GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav... GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices -- which continue to escalate -- and declining fares hav... GEORGE MIKELSONS Excess capacity, extremely high fuel prices, which continue to escalate, and declining fares have ne... GEORGE MIKELSONS There may be some excess fruit that producers in the Toronto area could purchase. GEORGE ROSE We believe precipitous declines in NAND prices are being driven primarily by excess supply, as NAND ... JAMES COVELLO The price of a cut feather in the last six months has increased quite dramatically, somewhere in exc... IAN LITTLE A notice of excess emissions was documented at the facility on Wednesday. They (RES officials) have ... MARK RADER After the bubble, the whole sector really started to crash and burn. But just like there was excess ... MARK ROWEN That would literally double the number of excess deaths over the next hottest summer in the last 40 ... LAURENCE KALKSTEIN The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a... LEE WOOTEN
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FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study FRANCIS BACON SR. There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall... FRANCIS BACON SR. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior FRANCIS BACON SR. A prudent question is one half of wisdom. FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. FRANCIS BACON SR. Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercis... FRANCIS BACON SR. The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen as... FRANCIS BACON SR. Cure the disease and kill the patient. FRANCIS BACON SR. I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this un... FRANCIS BACON SR. Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. FRANCIS BACON SR. That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl... FRANCIS BACON SR. Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of st... FRANCIS BACON SR. Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON SR. A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation FRANCIS BACON SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f... FRANCIS BACON SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. [Knowledge is] a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. FRANCIS BACON SR. Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the l... FRANCIS BACON SR. What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die? FRANCIS BACON SR. They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress FRANCIS BACON SR. The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore... FRANCIS BACON SR. Time is the measure of business. FRANCIS BACON SR. When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had be... FRANCIS BACON SR. Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life FRANCIS BACON SR. Great hypocrite are the real atheists FRANCIS BACON SR. It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of oth... FRANCIS BACON SR. When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as ... FRANCIS BACON SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. FRANCIS BACON, SR. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive coun... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. FRANCIS BACON SR. Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and ... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propo... FRANCIS BACON SR. In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of th... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON SR. Come home to men's business and bosoms. FRANCIS BACON SR. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration ... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. FRANCIS BACON SR. The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker. FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which... FRANCIS BACON SR. The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. FRANCIS BACON SR. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and f... FRANCIS BACON SR. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with... FRANCIS BACON SR. Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. FRANCIS BACON SR. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. FRANCIS BACON SR. In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ... FRANCIS BACON SR. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON SR. The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. FRANCIS BACON SR. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ab... FRANCIS BACON SR. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. FRANCIS BACON SR. The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. FRANCIS BACON SR. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. FRANCIS BACON SR. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. FRANCIS BACON SR. Money is a good servant but a bad master. FRANCIS BACON SR. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than... FRANCIS BACON SR. The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicit... FRANCIS BACON SR. Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug... FRANCIS BACON SR. Boldness is a child of ignorance FRANCIS BACON SR. The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical. FRANCIS BACON SR. He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ... FRANCIS BACON SR. The remedy is worse than the disease. FRANCIS BACON SR. Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the... FRANCIS BACON SR. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. FRANCIS BACON SR. Virtue is like precious odours,- most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. FRANCIS BACON SR. I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. FRANCIS BACON SR. There is superstition in avoiding superstitions FRANCIS BACON SR. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get y... FRANCIS BACON SR. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. FRANCIS BACON SR. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gr... FRANCIS BACON SR. Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. FRANCIS BACON SR. Certainly it is a heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind to move in charity, rest in providence, an... FRANCIS BACON SR. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. FRANCIS BACON SR. The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. FRANCIS BACON SR. The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. FRANCIS BACON SR. It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, exce... FRANCIS BACON SR. Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, tha... FRANCIS BACON SR. It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that... FRANCIS BACON SR. In charity there is no excess. FRANCIS BACON SR. In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. FRANCIS BACON SR. Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far... FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. FRANCIS BACON SR. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it be... FRANCIS BACON SR. Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tom... FRANCIS BACON SR. The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused ma... FRANCIS BACON SR. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid FRANCIS BACON SR. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. FRANCIS BACON SR. The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery FRANCIS BACON SR. All rising to a great place is by a winding stair FRANCIS BACON SR. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the... FRANCIS BACON SR. Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. FRANCIS BACON SR. Poesy was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the... FRANCIS BACON SR. States as great engines move slowly. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON SR. Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight. FRANCIS BACON SR. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkl... FRANCIS BACON SR. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise FRANCIS BACON SR. Acorns were good until bread was found. FRANCIS BACON SR. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not... FRANCIS BACON SR. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. FRANCIS BACON SR. If any human being earnestly desires to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and usi... FRANCIS BACON SR. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. FRANCIS BACON SR. He doth like the ape, that the higher he clymbes the more he shows his ars FRANCIS BACON SR. Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON SR. Of great riches there is no real use, except in the distribution; the rest is but conceit FRANCIS BACON SR. Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confi... FRANCIS BACON SR. Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half FRANCIS BACON SR. It is impossible to love and to be wise. FRANCIS BACON SR. The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend. FRANCIS BACON SR. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man FRANCIS BACON SR. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. FRANCIS BACON SR. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for ... FRANCIS BACON SR. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his... FRANCIS BACON SR. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. FRANCIS BACON SR. Houses are built to live in and not to look on. FRANCIS BACON SR. The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before. FRANCIS BACON SR. Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv... FRANCIS BACON SR. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more... FRANCIS BACON SR. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that... FRANCIS BACON SR. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. FRANCIS BACON SR. Rebellions of the belly are the worst. FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue FRANCIS BACON SR. 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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m... 
In charity there is no excess. 
In charity there is no excess. 
When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness. 
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver... 
Pride and excess bring disaster for man. 
Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. 
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. 
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... 
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opin... 
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Ju... 
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. 
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfor... 
Distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough. 
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. 
There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture,... 
Nothing in excess. 
Nothing, in excess. 
My advice to girls: first, don't smoke to excess; second, don't drink to excess; third, don't marry ... 
He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where ang... 
There is moderation even in excess. 
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. 
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working... 
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. 
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time t... 
The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire ... 
Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. 
I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess... 
Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps. 
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly alway... 
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. 
An excess of modesty is in fact an excess of pride, and more hurtful to the individual, and less adv... 
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. 
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. 
To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire f... 
Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. 
It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of ... 
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. 
Even demons can fall in love. 
In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. 
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and... 
To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, rev... 
The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness. 
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. 
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of... 
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces... 
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces... 
There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of G... 
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of ... 
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in ... 
Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a d... 
Moderation is a fatal thing. . . . Nothing succeeds like excess. 
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most ex... 
An excess of courtesy is discourtesy 
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty... 
His form had yet not lost / All her original brightness, nor appeared / Less than archangel ruined, ... 
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. 
Wise men make more opportunities than they find. 
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. 