#tempers

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

#bend #bent #destiny #everything #having

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#strong #tempers #uncertain

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age. ↗

— Lactantius

#age #controls #delights #memory #old

Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#deserve #fewer #likewise #love #people

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#lose #many #merely #people #seeing

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

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#lamb #tempers #wind