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O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!... - MORE O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!
I feel too much thy blessing; make it less,
For fear I surfeit.

Shakespeare

love | moderation | excess

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the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry... - MORE the moderate Aristotelian city
Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry
And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience,
And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.

W.H. Auden

existence

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But the People
Will not let us alone; will not credit, condone... - MORE But the People
Will not let us alone; will not credit, condone
Art-loves that shun
Them (moderate Christians rotting in the sun.)

Gwendolyn Brooks

people, the | criticism | Christianity | Christians

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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisp... - MORE Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

Truman Capote

lawyers

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By the way—about Bolshevism: one has to remember that all that is published in the press is propaganda, that the Bolsheviki are ... - MORE By the way—about Bolshevism: one has to remember that all that is published in the press is propaganda, that the Bolsheviki are the moderate social-revolutionaries, a political party, and the Soviets are a system of government based on the idea of "pure democracy" (Mso called in the textbooks on gov't) that every man shall take direct part in the government of the country—which is arrived at by industrial representation through the heirarchy of soviets, and that much the same system would be in vogue in America—(geographical instead of industrial units) if Hamilton and the rest had taken the New England town-meeting as the unit of government instead of importing Montesquieu's ideas. It's silly to idealize things in Russia, but it is criminal to condemn them unheard.

John Dos Passos

communism | government

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Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And of moderate vice... - MORE Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And of moderate vice
When men will not lay down the Cross
Because they will never assume it.
Yet nothing is impossible, nothing,
To men of faith and conviction.

T.S. Eliot

faith | modern times | sacrifices

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappoint... - MORE I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

gratitude

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On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, a... - MORE On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

conservatives | politics

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I belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the... - MORE I belong to the fag-end of Victorian liberalism, and can look back to an age whose challenges were moderate in their tone, and the cloud on whose horizon was no bigger than a man's hand.

E.M. Forster

politics

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Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not... - MORE Adolescents often behave much like members of an old-fashioned aristocracy. They maintain private rituals, which they often do not really understand themselves. They are extremely conservative in their dress and tastes, but the conventions to which they adhere are purely those of their own social group; they try to ignore the norms of the larger society if these conflict with their own. They can be extravagantly generous and extravagantly cruel, but rarely petty or conniving. Their virtues are courage and loyalty; while even the necessity for even a moderate degree of compromise humiliates them greatly. They tend to be pugnacious and quarrelsome about what they believe to be their rights, but naive and reckless in defending them. They are shy, but not modest. If they become very anxious they are likely to behave eccentrically, to withdraw, or to attack with some brutality; they are less likely to blend themselves innocuously into the environment with an apologetic smile. They are honest on occasions when even a stupid adult would have better sense.

Edgar Z. Friedenberg

adolescents

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