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By Undue Profundity We Perplex And Enfeeble Though
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By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and
it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the
firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or
too direct.
-- E.A. Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Related:
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
-- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), Epistle to William Hogarth, Line 645...
Are we being too literal?
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste
here are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience....
A reported fact states that murders of immediate family members account for nearly 25% of all murders committed.
Think about that the next time you yell at your sister for taking too long in the bathroom....
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
-- Henry Fielding...
Too many pages make a tome.
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. Robert E. Lee [1862]
Too Telix or not too Telix .. nah, it ain't even a question!