But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime; An age that melts with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according,… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among… — Plato Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms,… — William Law Copy Share Image
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… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not a fighter, trust me. But I am someone who can get angry. I have a temper at times. Sometimes it… — Jeff Gordon Copy Share Image
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all. — Larry MacPhail Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. — John Burns Copy Share Image
If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it. — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“First off, what the hell kind of name is that? Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance! What the actual… — J.C. McClean Copy Share Image
We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
