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• Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

  Confucius

  Tea, Mind, Body

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• I want to feel better. My wife says she likes me not drinking, not so many highs, so many lows, I don't lose temper, I'm more patient.

  Mike Bryan

  Drinking, Feel Better, Wife

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  Justice, May, Mercy

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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• A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Wise, Judging

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• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

  Isaac Watts

  Forgiveness, Wise, Mean

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic”, p.331

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• And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

  Dante Alighieri

  Fashion, Morning, Stars

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• God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sheep, Wind, Literature

  Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Elizabeth Draper, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904). “Life of Lawrence Sterne by Percy Fitzgerald”

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• Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Strategy, Lost

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• The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

  Daniel Defoe

  Wisdom, Storm, Weight

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.338

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• It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Delight, Miscellaneous

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.341

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• The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Temptation, Stakes

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education.

  Gilbert Murray

  Horse, Real, Men

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• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  Design, May, Sin

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

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• We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

  Mark V. Hurd

  Ideas, Events, Needs

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• I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Health, Eye, Noses

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

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• The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Agitation, Doe, Littles

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• I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Thinking, Political

  Letter to the Editor, N.Y. Daily Tribune, 10 Mar. 1873

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• A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Good Woman, Artistic

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• After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper and humanize the affections, it is certain, that nothing hardens the heart like excessive and unbounded luxury; and he who refuses the fewest gratifications to his own voluptuousness, will generally be found the least susceptible of tenderness for the wants of others.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Luxury, Temptation

  Hannah More (1818). “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great, to General Society: An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World. Remarks on the Speech of M. Dupont. And Tracts Written During the Riots of 1817”, p.9

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• I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Call Me, Abusive

  "Tatum O'Neal shares survival story". "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 15, 2014.

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• You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of writing with other self-destructive acts. I certainly was one of those people for a long time.

  Ben Gibbard

  Writing, Self, Long

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• If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.

  Catharine Beecher

  Mind, Faces, Female

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16

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• Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

  William Warburton

  Imagination, Mind, Enthusiasm

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• Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.

  George Horne

  Pride, Hands, Envy

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• The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Country, Mistake

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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