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Tag Name "Temperance" (136)

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley
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Some passions are bodily, other spiritual. Bodily passions have their sources in the body, while spiritual ones come from external things. But love and temperance cut out both the one and the other: Love cuts out spiritual passions, and temperance bodily ones.
Maximus the Confessor
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The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
William Shakespeare
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I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
Artemas Ward
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Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.
John Flavel
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Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
Joseph Addison
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For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.
James Gandolfini
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Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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I'm not pretending I'm not a nice guy. I'm not pretending I don't have a temper.
James Moore
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
Jeremy Taylor
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It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
Francis Atterbury
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(on Katharine Hepburn) She talks at you as though you were a microphone she lectured the hell out of me on temperance and the evils of drink. She doesn't give a damn how she looks. I don't think she tries to be a character. I think she is one.
Humphrey Bogart
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Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.
Saint Augustine
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.
Horace Mann
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
C. A. Bartol
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope
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Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift let us discard all covetousness and greed.
J. Reuben Clark
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If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
Frances E. Willard
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