Temperance Quotes
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- 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. ~ Charles Kingsley
- 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
- Health consists with temperance alone. ~ Alexander Pope
- In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance. ~ Joseph Joubert
- Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 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
- 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
- Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.~ Author Unknown
- Temperance adds zest to pleasure. ~ Anne Therese de Lambert
- Temperance and labor are the two best virtues. Labor whets the appetite, temperance curbs it. ~ Author Unknown
- Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. ~ Joseph Addison
- Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness. ~ Benjamin Robert Haydon
- Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man. ~ Robert Burton
- Temperance is a tree which as for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. ~ Buddha
- Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ~ Frances E. Willard
- Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. ~ St. Thomas Aquinas
- Temperance is the best physic. ~ Traditional Proverb
- 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
- Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced. ~ Cyrus Augustus Bartol
- Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance. ~ Mark Twain
- The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ~ John Christian Bovee
- The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
- The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. ~ Francis Bacon
- There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ~ John Ray
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