Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm. – Jean Paul

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. – Jean Paul
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. – Jean Paul
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
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Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business—great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – Attributed to D. March in A Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quot