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«Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.»
Author: Antisthenes | About: Gifts, Imagination | Keywords: bridal, excessive, quarrels
«One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.»
Author: Lew Wallace (Soldier, Writer) | Keywords: excessive, good fortune, In The Moment, on trial, trial
«I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.»
Author: Margaret Fuller | Keywords: cooled, degraded, devotion, embodied, excessive, mutually, prevented, sexes, urged
«Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee | Keywords: closely, egotism, excessive, morbid, self-consciousness, selves, sensibilities, sensibility, sensitiveness, The Cure
«The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: arrogance, burning, burning in, ego, excessive, greed, the fire
«Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: excessive
«There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | Keywords: excessive, imprudent, prudence
«She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.»
Author: Jane Austen (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: determined, excessive
«The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: causes, excessive, increase, opposite, reaction
«Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Errors | Keywords: awfully, caution, excessive, healthier, incur, incurred, lightness, nervousness
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