Abraham Cowley Quotes

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Extremes are dangerous.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

All extremes are dangerous.

Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation," she said. "Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom… that is very hard indeed.

Too much is the same as not enough.

The most dangerous flaws are those which are good in moderation.

Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

Since the universe is in constant and dynamic exchange, we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love and anything else we want circulating in our lives.

Most virtue lies between two vices.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.