Temperance Quotes

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

  Wes Fesler

  Jobs, Sobriety, Hammers

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Men, Needs

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• Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

  C. A. Bartol

  Virtue

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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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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian, at a particular time, to abstain from strong drink, either because he is the sort of man who cannot drink at all without drinking too much, or because he wants to give the money to the poor, or because he is with people who are inclined to drunkenness and must not encourage them by drinking himself. But the whole point he is abstaining, for a good reason, from something he does not condemn and which he likes to see other people enjoying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Strong, Drinking

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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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• For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

  Aristotle

  Drinking, Mean, Exercise

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• Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Acting, Energy

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.5

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• None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wine, Thinking, Abuse

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

  Theodore Parker

  Divine Order, Body, Preservation

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.18

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