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Tag Name "Temper" (424)

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Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.
David Hume
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The fine arts, both in those who cultivate and those only who admire them, open and expand the mind to great ideas. They inspire liberal feelings, create a harmony of temper, favorable to a sense of justice and a habit of moderation in our social intercourse.
Joel Barlow
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There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
Elsie de Wolfe
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If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
Catharine Beecher
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I use vulgar language in my writing. Or for people I don't like, but I have never had an outburst of anger and I think that's largely [Mahatma] Gandhi's influence. When you lose your temper, you've lost your cause.
Khushwant Singh
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William James
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
Henry Fielding
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Though much is taken, much abides and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A person's fate is their own temper.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.
Andrew Flintoff
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I rarely lose my temper anymore.
Mel Gibson
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
Mike Krzyzewski
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More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Arthur Helps
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
Bette Davis
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Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
William Shakespeare
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An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!
Boyd K. Packer
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If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.
Voltaire
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A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.
David Gemmell
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged by my joys or my pain. Sanctuary. Connected to the Silence everywhere.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.
Mark V. Hurd
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