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  • Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

    Sweet   Speech   Natural  
  • Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

    Weed   People   Growth  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria
  • Abstinence is easier than temperance.

  • Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

  • It has not been without bitter resistance by the clergy that woman's property and educational rights have advanced. Woman's anti-slavery work, her temperance work, her demand for personal rights, for political equality, for religious freedom and every step of kindred character has met with opposition from the church as a body and from the clergy as exponents of its views.

  • Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  • No man can expect to find a friend without faults; nor can he propose himself to be so to another. Without reciprocal mildness and temperance there can be no continuance of friendship. Every man will have something to do for his friend, and something to bear with in him. The sober man only can do the first; and for the latter, patience is requisite. It is better for a man to depend on himself, than to be annoyed with either a madman or a fool.

    Friends   Men   Annoyed  
  • Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like an appendix waiting for infection. Faith and hope and love...prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude...all this useless clutter just packed too much damn morality into the heart, getting in the way of the soul's innate desire for malignancy.

    Love   Heart   Justice  
    J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.17, Penguin
  • Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir.

    Nature   Ambition   Clubs  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.151, Penguin
  • The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

    1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.
  • Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

    Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.18
  • We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

    Strong   People   Reform  
  • Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

    Home   Amulets   Poor  
    Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.201
  • The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

  • Temperance adds zest to pleasure.

    Zest   Add   Pleasure  
  • Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

  • Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth, pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms, simple and calm and blessed, which we saw once in a pure, clear light, being pure ourselves.

    "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.
  • Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

    Mean   Keys   Self  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.134, Cambridge University Press
  • Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

  • To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

    Justice   Humanity   Six  
    Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.121, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

    Christian   Plato   Lying  
  • If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  • I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Great Speeches by Mark Twain”, p.9, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

  • One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

    Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics
  • Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

    Light   Justice   Shining  
    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.131, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

    Children   Mean   Law  
    John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”
  • Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

    Mean   Bravery   Excess  
    Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.218, Hackett Publishing
  • The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

    Blood   Sobriety   Drink  
    William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.21
  • No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

    Real   Drinking   Men  
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