Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command


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Too much zeal spoils everything.
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Above all, not too much zeal.
CHARLES M. DE TALLEYRAND
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
ALEXANDER POPE
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BIBLE
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JIMMY BUFFETT
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ITALO CALVINO
Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.
MARK TWAIN
I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.
BETSEY JOHNSON
Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER
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MARK TWAIN
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MARK TWAIN
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MARK LEVITT
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SUE MONK KIDD
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PATRICK MACGILL
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
EDNA FERBER
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EDNA FERBER
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DAVID R. BROWER
That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A word too much always defeats its purpose
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The town went by my word, ... If someone else doesn't take my word, then that's too bad.
SANDY ANDERSON
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Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
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Much silence makes a powerful noise. -African proverb.
AFRICAN PROVERB
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BUDDHA
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BUDDHA
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Never too old to learn. -Latin proverb.
LATIN PROVERB
It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
J.D. SALINGER
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JOSH BILLINGS
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NANCY FRIEDMAN
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BUDDHA
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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB
Needing to have the last word is for those who've already said too much~
BJ MORIN
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Our zeal and passion should be expressed before God rather than before people.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
DORIS LESSING
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ROBERT JORDAN
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ZELL MILLER
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
CARLOS SLIM
You can never have to many friends but, too much of a something is bad for anyone.
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND
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ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
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DAVE BARRY
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
THE BELZER RABBI
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ANONYMOUS
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA
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CHARLIE DICKINSON
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CRISS JAMI
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DHARAM SINGH
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MARK TWAIN
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH
Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.
SHALOM ROKEACH
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GRAHAM FOUNTAIN
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ERIC BOGLE
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ERIC BOGLE
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NURUDEEN USHAWU
My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
ZACHARY TAYLOR
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ARNOLD HARTIGAN
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
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T.H. WHITE
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
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MIKE MCGLONE
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
ANDREI PLATONOV
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AMBROSE BIERCE
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CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the dee...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
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Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.
MANOJ BHARGAVA
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RAIN BOJANGLES
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SOPHIA LOREN
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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