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I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three,--the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting. - Laurence Sterne If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards. - Thomas De Witt Talmage He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. - Jeremy Taylor Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink. - Jeremy Taylor, Holy Living--Of Drunkenness (ch. II, pt. 2) The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long: . . . . Sits long and rises drunken, But not with the feast and the wine; He reeleth with his own heart, That great, rich Vine. - James Thomson (2) (known as B.V. or Bysshe Vanolis), The Vine A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. - Cyril Tourneur (Turnour or Turner), The Revenger's Tragedy (act III, sc. 1) In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. - Edward Young Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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