Tempers Quotes
62 quotes by 62 authors
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
— Honore de Balzac
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
— Paul Cezanne
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,…
— Charles Darwin
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There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
— Frank Moore Colby
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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me, coexisting with my tempers and my fears, unchanged…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks…
— John Burroughs
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Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.
— Peter Kreeft
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I dealt with men who had tempers, and who could get violent-Lord knows how I had to defend myself against Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra,…
— Ava Gardner
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once…
— Michael Palin
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother…
— Babe Ruth
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
— Samuel Rutherford
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The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,…
— Phyllis McGinley
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I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a…
— William Melmoth
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy…
— K.J. Parker
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Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are…
— Thomas Hobbes
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Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears…
— Confucius
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
— Laurence Sterne
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The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the…
— Daniel Defoe
Who Wrote These Tempers Quotes
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