Temperance Quotes

• Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

  Frances E. Willard

  Abstinence, Moderation, Foul

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• There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

  Socrates

  Differences, Embrace, Knows

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• Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Fire, Clothes

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• Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Passion, Character

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• Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Names, Purity, Moderation

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• 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

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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• To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Heart, Justice

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• If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

  Horace Mann

  Failing, Ifs

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• Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.257

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• The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

  William Penn

  Blood, Sobriety, Drink

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.21

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• Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Revenge, Heart

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• Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

  Wes Fesler

  Jobs, Sobriety, Hammers

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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

  Peace, Character, Roots

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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• Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

  Mark Twain

  Causes, Moderation

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.242, Courier Corporation

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• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Happiness, Fitness

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• In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

  Joseph Joubert

  Cleanliness, Elegance

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• 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

  Time, Wall, Sleep

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.206, Courier Corporation

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  Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Shows, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• 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

  Adversity, Men, Two

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• For me, temperance is essential to good work.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Essentials, Moderation, Good Work

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• Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

  Saint Augustine

  Desire, Disposition

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• 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.

  Robert E. Lee

  Alcohol, Civil War, Moral

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.443, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

  Francis Bacon

  War, Adversity, Conflict

  1625 Essays, no.5,'Of Adversity'.

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• Health consists with temperance alone.

  Alexander Pope

  Health

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.128

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