While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
It's not something I worry about: I can control my temper!
I don't have a problem with my temper.
I still have a temper, I suppose.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.