Moderation
- Temperance (virtue), habitual moderation in the indulgence of a natural appetite or passion
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Famous quotes containing the word moderation:
“Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
“The honest Man has, I know, that modest Desire of Gain which is peculiar to those who understand better Things than Riches; and I dare say he would be contented with much less than what is called Wealth in that Quarter of the Town which he inhabits, and will oblige all his Customers with Demands agreeable to the Moderation of his Desires.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)