Moderate Quotes
256 quotes by 214 authors
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Be moderate in everything, including moderation.
— Horace Porter
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Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called…
— Charles Scott
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What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828,…
— Joseph Hume
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Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon…
— Richard Owen
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The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a…
— Meriwether Lewis
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The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems.
— Renata Adler
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Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
— Allan Jacobs
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Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
— Laozi
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We feel led to caution . . . against forming the bad habit of incurring debt and taking upon themselves obligations which frequently burden them…
— Wilford Woodruff
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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be…
— Robert McCracken
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Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately.…
— Stephen I of Hungary
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
— Samuel Smiles
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We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...
— James Salter
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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
— Jane Austen
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Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled.
— Ellen G. White
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I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only…
— Brother Lawrence
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This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step…
— Jim Cooper
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