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Letter "T" » temperance
«Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.»
Author: Frances E. Willard
| Keywords:
abstinence, foul, fouled, fouler, foulest, fouling, fouls, foul up, moderation, temperance, total
«Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, aliment, branches, Branches of, climate, nutritious, regimen, regularities, regularity, retiring, temperance, The Hours, The Variations, variation, variations
«No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
adherence, blessings, firm, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, frugality, fundamental, fundamental principle, moderation, preserved, recurrence, recurrences, temperance
«My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.»
Author: Robert E. Lee
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
abstinence, beneficial, commendable, liquors, safeguard, spirituous, temperance
«Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever»
Author: Samuel Smiles
| About:
Health,
Knowledge,
Medicine,
Time,
Wealth
| Keywords:
replaced, temperance
«Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
calm, calmed, calmer, calmest, calming, calms, contentment, fruit, fruit tree, fruit trees, root, temperance, Tree
«Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.»
«Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Labor,
Moderation
| Keywords:
appetite, excess, indulging, physicians, prevents, sharpens, temperance
«Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Wisdom
| Keywords:
aright, equally, fleeing, flees, fortitude, in public, meeting, parts, private parts, subdues, subduing, temperance
«Perfect wisdom hath four parts: wisdom, the principle of doing things right; justice the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subdui»
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