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Temper Quotes by Joseph Addison
- Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
- A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
- A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.
- Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
- The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
- I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country
- Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be…
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