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Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Morituri Salutamus", (pp. 142-144), 1922.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, Be bold! be bold! and everywhere - Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than