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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Temperance is love in training.
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Teach hope to all, despair to none.
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Abstinence is the surety of temperance.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.
Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
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.
As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
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.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.
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.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
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.
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.
