Distemper Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison to…
— Jens Peter Jacobsen
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age…
— Gerald Early
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By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou…
— John Owen
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a…
— Mark Twain
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A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul…
— John Pym
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Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed…
— Bill Moyers
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Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd no sooner. Fate…
— John Dryden
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I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.
— William Shakespeare
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Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over…
— William Shakespeare
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The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
— William Wilberforce
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[To] turn poet, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
— Miguel de Cervantes
Who Wrote These Distemper Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Distemper Quotes as follows: