Temperance Quotes
141 Temperance quotes by 105 unique authors
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
— Aristotle
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
— Thomas Aquinas
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
— John Climacus
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a…
— Sam Manekshaw
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Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is…
— Dwight L. Moody
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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the…
— Robert E. Lee
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel de Montaigne
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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…
— J. Reuben Clark
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
— Joseph Joubert
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
— Joseph Addison
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
— Benjamin Haydon
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
— Frances E. Willard
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Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
— Mark Twain
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and…
— George Mason
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Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
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True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and…
— David O. McKay
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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…
— Seneca the Younger
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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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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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