Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
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