Moderate Range

Famous quotes containing the words moderate and/or range:

    Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)