Quotes with temper

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  • Washington Irving Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Francis Quarles Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Aristotle 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
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Joseph Joubert The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Anthony Burgess The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Horace The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Blake Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Antisthenes There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Bill Parcells There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ben Carson There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bainbridge Colby Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Alan Watts To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Butler We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • R. W. Dale We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
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  • Alfred Adler We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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