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"Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult." »Samuel Johnson
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"The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy." »Juvenal
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"Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery." »Shelley
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"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." »Samuel Smiles
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"Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom." »Plato
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