Dark with excessive bright. [ Milton ]

Do not practice excessive humility. [ Dr. John Todd ]

Good taste rejects excessive nicety. [ Fenelon ]

In excessive altercation truth is lost. [ Publius Syrus ]

Sudden joy kills sooner than excessive grief. [ Proverb ]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine.
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. [ Milton ]

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. [ Bovee ]

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead: excessive grief the enemy to the living. [ William Shakespeare ]

We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. [ Herder ]

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. [ Zoroaster ]

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. [ Lander ]

In public affairs, we may usually infer the weakness of the cause by the excessive price that ministers have freely paid to those whose eloquence, or whose sophistry, has enabled them to make that weakness triumph. [ Colton ]

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician - I should like to be also something of a man. [ Theodore Parker ]