#temper

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. ↗

— Aristotle

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. ↗

— Aristotle

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We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. ↗

— Tina Fey

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An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction? ↗

— Wes Craven

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