Temperance Quotes
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
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Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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The health of the soul is to have its faculties, reason, high spirit and desire happily tempered, with the reason in command and reining in the other two, like restive horses. The special name of this health is temperance, that is σωφροσύνη or 'thought-preserving,' for it creates a preservation of one of our powers, namely that of wise-thinking.
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I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
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If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church?
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
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Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
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The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
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Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
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Abstinence is easier than temperance.
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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If all the world Should in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.
