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Tag Name "Temper" (424)

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O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven keep me in temper I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare
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I wrote half the record in 2002, which basically concluded with us releasing Baby's Got A Temper, the last single. I think after the disappointment of that record for myself with the lack of energy and the way the record came out, I would say that was probably the low point of The Prodigy.
Liam Howlett
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The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
Rumi
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If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.
John C. Maxwell
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I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
John Wesley
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene science, that never grows gray, was always his mistress. He was never without an object, for when we cease to have an object, we become like an invalid in a hospital waiting for death.
Thomas Paine
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I'm sorry for losing my temper following the race, but after a day or two of looking back at the race it's easy to realize that it's just not that big of a deal compared with what the people of the Gulf Coast are still going through.
Robby Gordon
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I truly thought I might hurt that man, he said, very badly. I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper. Apparently I am.
Kristin Cashore
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He doesn’t beat me,” I said irritably. “I’d kill him if he did.” “She would. She has a temper. Stubborn, too. But we’re working on that, aren’t we, Ms. Lane?
Karen Marie Moning
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If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W. S. Gilbert
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
Margaret Atwood
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Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.
Jeremy Collier
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I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.
Mark Twain
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George Santayana
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In tribal society, the most important thing to do when civilians are killed in a skirmish is to acknowledge the deaths, and provide compensation. When tribal clans fight, the victor is required to take care of the vanquished widows and orphans, which puts a limitation on bloodshed, and tempers warring groups to try and negotiate a compromise.
Greg Mortenson
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Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Joseph Addison
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I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.
John Malkovich
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A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Hannah More
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
William Godwin
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Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred no difference of age or season no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
Samuel Pepys
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.
William Lyon Phelps
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If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.
Joseph P. Farrell
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