Excess Quote by Arthur Lynch

“We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.”

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A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a belief in anything.

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The accumulation of facts, even if interesting in themselves, should not constitute the main part of education; these facts, whether they be of classical…

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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some…

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Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

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Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission.

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Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

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Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.

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