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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. – W. Somerset Maugham
Excessive literary production is a social offense. – George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. – Jimi Hendrix
Excuse me, but can you be a little more vague? – Tom Zegan
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself or her family ridiculous; a flirt, too, in the worst and meanest degree of flirtation; without any attraction beyond youth and a tolerable person; and, from the ignorance – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. – James Rippe
Exercise effortlessness. – Leslie Miklosy
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. – Joseph Addison
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. – Barber B. Conable, Jr
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. – Joe Moore
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Exiles feed on hope. – Aeschylus
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. – Dejan Stojanovic
Existence precedes and rules essence. – Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. – Anatole France
Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point every man is a condemned criminal, only he does not know the date of his execution. This is unpleasant for every man. Consequently every man does everything possible to postpone the date, and would sacrifice anything that he has if he could reverse the sentence. Practically all religions and all philosophies have started thus crudely, by promising their adherents some such reward as immortality. No religion has failed hitherto by not promising enough the present breaking up of all religions is due to the fact that people have asked to see the securities. Men have even renounced the important material advantages which a well-organized religion may confer upon a State, rather than acquiesce in fraud or falsehood, or even in any system which, if not proved guilty, is at least unable to demonstrate its innocence. Being more or less bankrupt, the best thing that we can do is to attack the problem afresh without preconceived ideas. Let us begin by doubting every statement. Let us find a way of subjecting every statement to the test of experiment. Is there any truth at all in the claims of various religions Let us examine the question. – Aleister Crowley
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. – Samuel Hazo
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. – Samuel Hazo
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. – Alice Walker
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised. – Denis Watley
Expect the best, Prepare for the worst. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass. – Ann Landers
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. – Eileen Caddy

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