Temperance Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Temperance.
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“Intemperance”
“Self-control”
“Self discipline”
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
“Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
Leave gormandizing.”
“And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.”
“Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.”
“Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.”
“Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only
Which your disease requires.”
“Well observe
The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught
In what thou eat'st and drink'st.”
“Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.”
“These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.”
“Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.”
“The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.”
“Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. [Tar Water.]”
“Call'd to the temple of impure delight
He that abstains, and he alone, does right.
If a wish wander that way, call it home;
He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.”
“If all the world
Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,
Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.”
“Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,
Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence.
But Health consists with Temperance alone,
And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.”