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Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes. - Horace Mann If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail. - Horace Mann If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the use of wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own. - Samuel Joseph May From our tables here, no painful surfeits, No fed diseases grow, to strangle nature, And suffocate the active brain; no fevers, No apoplexies, palsies or catarrhs Are here; where nature, not entic'd at all With such a dang'rous bait as pleasant cates, Takes in no more than she can govern well. - Thomas May Health and liberty Attend on these bare meals; if all were blest With such a temperance, what man would fawn, Or to his belly sell his liberty? There would be then no slaves, no sycophants At great men's tables. - Thomas May With riotous banquets, sicknesses came in, When death 'gan muster all his dismal band Of pale diseases. - Thomas May If thou well observe The rule of--not too much,--by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return: So may's thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop, Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd; in death mature. - John Milton 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. - John Milton, Comus (l. 720) Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance. - John Milton, Comus (l. 762) Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 531) O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook. - John Milton, Samson Agonistes (l. 553) The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Philosophy, religious solitude And labour wait on temperance; in these is desire bounded; they instruct the mind's And body's action. - Nabb Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow. - John Neal Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. - Theodore Parker A Spartan, being asked why his people drank so little, replied: "That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us." - Plutarch Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought. - John Ruskin Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. - William Shakespeare What's a drunken man like?--Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him, and a third drowns him. - William Shakespeare Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, v) Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii) Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i) Great men should drink with harness on their throats. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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