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• EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
  Hail, high Excess -- especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me -- My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine....
• It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late
  and again, that everything must be done at its proper seaso...
• The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible .
  .. and to serve others as much as possible. -- Leo Tolstoy...
• If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great.
  -- Hesiod (c. 700 BC) -- Works and Days, Line 360...
• The radiologists' national flower is the hedge. -- Bernstein's Precep
• The cattle upon a thousand hills. -- Old Testament -- Psalm l, 10
• Above any Greek or Roman name.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Upon the Death of Lord Hastings, Line 76...
• And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- The Hind and the Panther, Part i, Line 271...
• Presume to lay their hand upon the ark Of her magnificent and awful cause.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Line 231...