#temper

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I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.


Mike Krzyzewski


#bad #channel #growing #growing up #had

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!


William Shakespeare


#i #keep #mad #me #sweet

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.


Charles Spurgeon


#easy #evil #generally #little #men

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.


Samuel Butler


#himself #man #manner #temper #tone

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.


Margaret Cavendish


#felicity #live #method #peace #pleasure

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#defying #great #great virtues #his #keeping

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose.


Joseph Conrad


#lies #temperament #death

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.


Stephen Fry


#every #experience #fruit #fully #garden

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.


William Law


#cares #certainly #christian #christian life #death

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.


David Letterman


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