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Excessive fear is always powerless.

Quote by Aeschylus about fear

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall, the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Quote by Francis Bacon about religion, fall, angels, knowledge, power, man

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Quote by Jane Austen

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about nation

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

Quote by Robert M. Parker, Jr. about rules

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Quote by Theodore Parker about man, affair, things

Remote lights your words were, my love: the fatal sisters – with the red blood, excessively hot!

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about love