Joseph Addison Quotes

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

Moderation in all things is best, but it's pretty hard to get excited about it.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

There is moderation even in excess.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Be not righteous overmuch.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

I have realised I need to tone down and be easy at times. It is good to be competitive and have a fighting spirit, but one should not go to extremes.