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I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.


Anne Brontë


#children #control #evil #excess #moderation

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.


Edgar Allan Poe


#intemperance #violence #violence

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.


Joseph Addison


#greatest weakness #human #human nature #inconsistency #mutability

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus.


Robert Barany


#flash #me #obviously #responsible #temperature

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.


Thomas Aquinas


#disposition #mind #passion #simply #temperance

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.


Spencer Abraham


#made #majority #nature #nominations #republican

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.


Aristotle


#acts #become #brave #comes #doing

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.


Aristotle


#actions #become #brave #just #performing

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.


Aristotle


#pleasures #regard #temperance

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.


Alfred Adler


#inferiority #interpret #must #sign #temper






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