Quote by Daniel Defoe

“how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases—viz.…

— Daniel Defoe

I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth ... that they are not ashamed…

— Daniel Defoe

“It need not seem at all strange that sin should so blind the mind, seeing that men’s particular natural tempers and dispositions will so…

— Jonathan Edwards

Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

— Homer

“that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers, by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had…

— Jane Austen

“They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named: Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish…

— John Wortabet

“Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the…

— Erik Erikson

“It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being, in vain he…

— Charles William Eliot

“Be not desirous to know what people say; if they speak well of thee, it will feed thy pride, if ill, it will stir…

— Matthew Henry

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”

— Dale Carnegie