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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. - Natha

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. – Saint Augustine of Hippo

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Moderate profits fill the purse. – Italian Proverb

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From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912

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