Tempers Quotes

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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey wonâ€™t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine… — Gilbert Murray
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if… — Catharine Beecher
An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our… — Boyd K. Packer
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our… — Hannah More
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our… — D. A. Carson
Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see… — Michel de Montaigne
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys… — Eric Maisel
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice,… — Jose Rizal
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. — Plutarch
Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel. — James E. Faust
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. — Vincent Cassel
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have… — Nathan Fillion
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which… — Dante Alighieri
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers. — Joseph Addison
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with. — Euripides
Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves. — Wilferd Peterson
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed… — Joseph Butler
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding

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