quotes about Temperance
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Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.
-- Benjamin HaydonSource : Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.257
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I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
-- Billy Sunday -
Temperance to be a virtue must be free, and not forced.
-- C. A. Bartol -
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Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer -
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.
-- John Bartholomew Gough -
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
-- Joseph Joubert -
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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie King -
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20