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Letter "T" » temperance
«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| Keywords:
a hundred, breed, cheerfulness, content, diligence, forced, hundred, idle, idled, idling, self control, temperance, virtues, work force
«Health consists with temperance alone.»
«A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Bach, go to sleep, infinitely, Plato, preparing, sleep in, standards, temperance, thankfulness
«Joy and Temperance and Repose - Slam the door on the doctor's nose»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
doctor, nose, repose, slam, slamming, slams, temperance, The Doctor
«Joy, temperance, and repose slam the door on the doctor's nose.»
«Abstinence is the surety of temperance»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Abstinence
| Keywords:
abstinence, sureties, surety, temperance
«Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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each day, finish, interpose, interposed, interposing, next, sleep, solid, solidest, temperance, the next, wall
«Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Abstinence
| Keywords:
abstinence, temperance
«Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty»
«Abstinence is easier than temperance»
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