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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

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

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

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.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

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

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

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

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.