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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. - Joseph Addison Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passions. - Saint Thomas Aquinas Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. - Cyrus Augustus Bartol Temperance is a tree which has for a root very little contentment, and for fruit, calm and peace. - Buddha (Gautama Buddha) He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals, and drink water. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton That cardinal virtue, temperance. - Edmund Burke Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. - Robert Burton Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts. - Claudian (Claudianus) Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts. - Claudian (Claudianus) Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. - Jeremy Collier Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam. - William Cowper, Progress of Error (l. 557) Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. - George Crabbe, The Borough (letter XVII, l. 198) Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take. - Sir Thomas Elyot, Governour (bk. III, ch. XVI) 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 house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body. - Benjamin Franklin Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could. - John Bartholomew Gough Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. - Benjamin Robert Haydon Satan o'ercomes none but by willingness. - Robert Herrick Fools! not to know how far an humble lot Exceeds abundance by injustice got; How health and temperance bless the rustic swain, While luxury destroys her pamper'd train. - Hesiod Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), in Hannah More's "Johnsoniana", 467 In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. - Joseph Joubert Temperance adds zest to pleasure. - Madame Anne Therese de Lambert Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. - Horace Mann If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. - Horace Mann If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the use of wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own. - Samuel Joseph May From our tables here, no painful surfeits, No fed diseases grow, to strangle nature, And suffocate the active brain; no fevers, No apoplexies, palsies or catarrhs Are here; where nature, not entic'd at all With such a dang'rous bait as pleasant cates, Takes in no more than she can govern well. - Thomas May Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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