"To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy."
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"During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption."
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"If you focus too much on the fools, you will eventually become one."
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"People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly."
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"To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle."
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"Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write."
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"There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society."
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"To spend too much time in studies is sloth."
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"There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much."
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"It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good."
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"You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos."
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"Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much."
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"I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all."
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"Lord, bend me, or I shall rot. Lord do not bend me too much, for I shall break. Lord bend me too much, who cares if I break!"
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"Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much."
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"Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little."
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"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."
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"I found myself in too much of a box situation."
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"You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go."
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"Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself."
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