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Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.
— Gautama Buddha
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
— Seneca The Younger
Temperance is love in training.
— Dwight L. Moody
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
— Joseph Addison
Health consists with temperance alone.
— Alexander Pope
Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
— Seneca The Younger
Temperance adds zest to pleasure.
— Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
— Robert A. Burton
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
— Billy Sunday
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
— Seneca The Younger
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jupiter will try to practise temperance but can
— Komilla Sutton
There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.
— Joseph Livesey
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
— Margaret Cavendish
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
— William Shakespeare
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
— Michel De Montaigne
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
For in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
— William Shakespeare
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
— Frances E. Willard
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
— Joseph Addison
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
— Samuel Johnson
For me, temperance is essential to good work.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
— Richard Mentor Johnson
I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?
— Susumu Katsumata
I am sure,Though you can guess what temperance should be,
You know not what it is. — William Shakespeare
Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.
— Aristotle.
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
The public's imagination is rarely captured by bland temperance.
— Larry J. Sabato
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
— C. A. Bartol
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
— Cristobal Balenciaga
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
— Philip Sidney
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
— Henry David Thoreau
These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.
— Gregory Of Nazianzus
Get temperance of lip, life, heart, and thought.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
— Samuel Johnson
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
— Larry MacPhail
Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
— Benjamin Haydon
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
— William Shakespeare
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
— Samuel Smiles
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.
— Artemas Ward
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
— William Wycherley
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
— Edmund Burke
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
— Vance Havner
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
— Horace Mann
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
Fear the soldier who stammers, for he is very fast at pulling the triger.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
— Aristotle.
First off, what the hell kind of name is that? Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck? — Joanne McClean
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
— Aristotle.
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
— Theodore Parker
truth, justice, temperance, and
— Jonathan Swift
A true spiritual teacher knows more than he or she necessarily verbalizes, using temperance and love to be guided to say what is appropriate ...
— Meredith L. Young-Sowers
In Charleston, temperance is a four letter word.
— Mark R. Jones
Discipline is needed in our temperance.
— Sunday Adelaja
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
— John Tillotson
Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
— John Milton
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
— Michel De Montaigne
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
— John Bartholomew Gough
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
— Joseph Joubert
Teach hope to all, despair to none.
— Abraham Lincoln
Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.
— Jeremy Taylor
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
— Saint Augustine
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
— Francis Atterbury
