Tempers Quotes

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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
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne
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
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
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby
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
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. — Carlos Castaneda
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
Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel. — Peter Kreeft
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. — Laurence Sterne
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

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