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• If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.

  Isaac Barrow

  Mean, Men, Hatred

  Isaac Barrow (1839). “The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author”, p.271

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• I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Growing Up, Squash

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Naughty, Two

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.4, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humorous, Animal, Men

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• …a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

  Charles Dickens

  Phrases, Uncertain, Uncomfortable

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2469, Delphi Classics

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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Cute, Sad

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• It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

  Sean O'Casey

  Would Be, Detrimental, Loses

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  Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

  George Eliot

  World, Demand, Fine

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2858, Delphi Classics

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• Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Taste, Loses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.64, Harvard University Press

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• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

  Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

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• One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

  William Butler Yeats

  Anger, Getting High, Ends

  William Butler Yeats (1973). “Memoirs”

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• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  Joseph Joubert

  Anger, Hiking, Long Walks

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• Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

  Chuck Norris

  Inspirational, Humorous, Anger

  Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

  James M. Barrie

  Weapons, Blades

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Long, Lost

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Inspirational, Anger, Losing

  "Fictional character: Buddy". "'Anger Management': THR's 2003 Review" by Kirk Honeycutt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2018.

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• Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Strong, Taken, Heart

  "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)

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• Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

  Daniel Handler

  Fun, Anger, Tantrums

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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Tone, Argument

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

  Rumi

  War, Faces, Quitting

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

  Francis Quarles

  Fear, Heart, Literature

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• Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Get Well, Health, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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