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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.
Aristotle
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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
Aristotle
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Philosophy
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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.
Warren Buffet
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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.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Hunger
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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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People
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Ability
Listen
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Almost
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Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
C. A. Bartol
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Virtue
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
Chuck Norris
Men
Steel
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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.
Ben Okri
Conditioned
Essential
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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.
William James
Almost
Devout
Esteem
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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.
Henry Rollins
Subdued
Winter
Grip
Harder
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It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
Steven Wright
Always
Matter
Room
Temperature
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Henry Van Dyke
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Cheerful
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Sun Tzu
Him
Irritate
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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.
Peter Gay
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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.
Edmund Burke
Cannot
Constitution
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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
Humility
Infinitely
Listening
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
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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.
Charles Dickens
Credit
Dressed
Spirits
Good
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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Thomas Aquinas
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Disposition
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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.
Charles Spurgeon
Easy
Evil
Generally
Little
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Always
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Age
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
Harold Bloom
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
Hunger
Nationalism
Power
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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
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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.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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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.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
Best
Government
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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.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
Anonymity
Bach
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Born
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Iris Murdoch
Being
End
Good
In The End
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
Ingmar Bergman
Bloody
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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.
J. Paul Getty
Emotional
Emotions
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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.
Hal Borland
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Pride
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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.
Rob Lowe
Alike
Always
Father
Fell
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Laurence Sterne
God
Tempers
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Wind
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Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Louis XIV of France
Ah
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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.
Lou Reed
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Henry Drummond
Peculiarity
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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.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Rudolf Steiner
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It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.
Agatha Christie
Quiet people
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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.
Alan Sillitoe
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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Alfred Adler
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