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51 quotesThe happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Temper
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Health
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
Temperament
Martin Luther
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
Religion
Harriet Martineau
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Style [Is] the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
Style
Andre Maurois
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The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Temper
Addison Mizner
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The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.
Anger
Wilson Mizner
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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Knowledge
Hector Hugh Munro
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Goodness
Iris Murdoch
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A theory must be tempered with reality.
Reality
Jawaharlal Nehru
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Wisdom
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Nationalities and Nationalism
George Orwell
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Moderation
Thomas Paine
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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Enthusiasm
Blaise Pascal
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Health consists with temperance alone.
Health
Alexander Pope
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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Anger
Proverb
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
Enjoyment
Francis Quarles
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
Doctors
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.
Madness
William Shakespeare
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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Life and Living
Socrates
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
Moderation
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Moderation
Mark Twain
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Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.
Pride
Source Unknown
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Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it.
Virtue
Source Unknown
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun