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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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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.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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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.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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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.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
Pensees (1669) -
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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In every premenstrual woman struggling to govern her temper, sky-cult wars again with earth-cult.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
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