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The 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 ] Wernher Von Braun