“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
Christian Moderation, introduction.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“Our age is an age of moderate virtue
And moderate vice”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1790s, Letter to the Addressers (1792)
Context: A thing, moderately good, is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to Richard Watson Dixon (17 October 1881)
Letters, etc
“And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Karl Hess (1923–1994) American journalist
Barry Goldwater's speech http://www.c-span.org/video/?4018-1/goldwater-1964-acceptance-speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, written by Karl Hess, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco. <br class="br">Context: I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
