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"Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*"
"Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation."
"Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess."
"We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right."
"Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it."
"Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill."
"I realized, 'Yo, I can't do anything in moderation. I don't know how.'"
"I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living."
"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
"It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation."
"Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes."
"You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order."
"I try to eat well, but I don't deny myself the foods I love. I just eat them in moderation."
"Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day."
"It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking."
"Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time."
"Safety lies in the middle course. [Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]"
"The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high."
"Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed."
"Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain."
