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" Quotes and Sayings About temper

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beauty Soul After Feel
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

Pleasure Crowd Intellect Temperament
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I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

Hunger Descendant Temper Have
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Don’t go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every Get With Pot
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To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Expect Good Food People
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Act Will Heart Function
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Ability Listen Temper Almost
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.

Free Virtue Must Force
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Men Steel Temper Lose
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At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

Almost Devout Esteem Facts
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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.

Subdued Winter Grip Harder
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Always Matter Room Temperature
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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Charm Cheerful Great Personal
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If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.
Him Irritate Opponent Temper
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To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Have Liberal Temperament Kind
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Cannot Constitution Eternal Forge
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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.

Humility Infinitely Listening Lying
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Heart Hurts Never Temper
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

Credit Dressed Spirits Good
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Binds Disposition Mind Passion
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Easy Evil Generally Little
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Always Moderation Principle Temper
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age Constant Grows Never
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Age Constant Grows Never
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Doctor Door Joy Nose
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I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.

Love Literature I
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Hunger Nationalism Power Self-Deception
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Temper Angry Lose
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Unfortunately Regretted Fact Temper
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At the extreme temperature occurring in the stars, matter can only survive in its most dissociated states. Only simple bodies exist on these incandescent stars.

Extreme Temperature Stars Survive
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Best Government Benevolent Tyranny
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Aware Bored Happiness He
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
Being End Good In The End
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Bloody Was Tempered Young
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Emotional Emotions Like Men
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The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

Seasons Pride Power man Winds
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Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Alike Always Father Fell
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
God Tempers Lamb Wind
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Entirely Income Matter Temperament
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Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
Ah King Lose Should
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I'll tell ya, I'm a genuinely nice guy. I really am. A real nice guy. But I think I'm temperamental.

Am Genuinely Guy I Think
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The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous.
Peculiarity Ill temper Virtuous
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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Temperate zone Mind Luxurious indolence Work
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In the very traits of his temperament, which have a considerable effect on his life of soul, a person bears within him qualities and impulses that have an obvious connection with those of his physical ancestors.

Ancestors Bears Connection Considerable
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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.

Quiet people Do lose Temper Vengeance
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

Runner Soul Bad tempered World
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Must interpret Bad temper Sign Inferiority
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