Overmuch Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find… — William Butler Yeats
They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on… — Plato
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the… — Robert Fripp
Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the… — Isocrates
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch. — William Butler Yeats
So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it… — Samuel Eliot Morison
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the… — Loren D. Estleman
A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch. — W. Somerset Maugham
Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would… — Rick Bass
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule… — Arthur Eddington
In a world of discouragement, sorrow, and overmuch sin, in times when fear and despair seem to prevail, when humanity is feverish with no worldly… — Jeffrey R. Holland
We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not… — Martyn
It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. — Arthur Eddington
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. — Alexander Hamilton
Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for they are evil, and in the end… — H. Rider Haggard
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and… — Jack London
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before… — Frederick Buechner

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