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Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind. ~ Plutarch
Intemperance quotes by Plutarch
Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Intemperance quotes by Michel De Montaigne
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts ~ Plutarch
Intemperance quotes by Plutarch
Intemperance is the only vulgarity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intemperance quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone
is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness
nay, every vice, misery, and degradation. ~ Harriot Kezia Hunt
Intemperance quotes by Harriot Kezia Hunt
Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure. ~ Edward Brooke
Intemperance quotes by Edward Brooke
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant. ~ Seneca.
Intemperance quotes by Seneca.
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
[Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.] ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Intemperance quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
I even spent a certain amount of time worrying about the Spiritualist doctrines: If The Other Side was so wonderful, why did the spirits devote most of their messages to warnings? Instead of telling their loved ones to avoid slippery stairs and unsafe cars and starchy foods, they should have been luring them over cliffs and bridges and into lakes, spurring them on to greater feats of intemperance and gluttony, in order to hasten their passage to the brighter shore. ~ Margaret Atwood
Intemperance quotes by Margaret Atwood
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity? ~ Abraham Lincoln
Intemperance quotes by Abraham Lincoln
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. ~ Pierre Charron
Intemperance quotes by Pierre Charron
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Intemperance quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Intemperance quotes by Walter Savage Landor
In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance. ~ Horace Mann
Intemperance quotes by Horace Mann
A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. ~ Voltaire
Intemperance quotes by Voltaire
Drunkenness is an immoderate affection and use of drink. That I call immoderation that is besides or beyond that order of good things for which God hath given us the use of drink. ~ Jeremy Taylor
Intemperance quotes by Jeremy Taylor
Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human sacrifices. And they ought to be fitted up like the ancient temples in Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superstition that is carried on within their walls. ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Intemperance quotes by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
But, should the period ever arrive, when luxury and intemperance shall corrupt our towns, while ignorance and vice pervade the country; when the press shall become the common sewer of falsehood and slander; when talents and integrity shall be no recommendation, and open dereliction of all principle no obstacle to preferment; when we shall entrust our liberties to men with whom we should not dare to trust our property; when the chief seats of honor and responsibility in our government shall be filled by characters of whom the most malicious ingenuity can invent nothing worse than the truth; when we shall see the members of our national councils, in defiance of the laws of God and their country, throwing away their lives in defence of reputations, which, if they ever existed, had long been lost; when the slanderers of Washington and the blasphemers of our God shall be thought useful laborers in our political vineyard; when, in fine, we shall see our legislators sacrificing their senses, their reason, their oaths, and their consciences at the altar of party; - then we may say, that virtue has departed, and that the end of our liberty draweth nigh." p37 ~ Edward Payson
Intemperance quotes by Edward Payson
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Intemperance quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
To see her is a picture-
To hear her is a tune-
To know her an Intemperance
As innocent as June-
To know her not-Affliction-
To own her for a Friend
A warmth as near as if the the Sun
Were shining in your Hand. ~ Emily Dickinson
Intemperance quotes by Emily Dickinson
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality. ~ Paul Tournier
Intemperance quotes by Paul Tournier
Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring forth in us the fruits of intemperance. ~ William Law
Intemperance quotes by William Law
Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fair warning that unless you seek the true philosophical gold and not the gold of the vulgar, unless you heart is fixed with unbending intent on the true Stone of the Philosophers, unless you are steadfast in your quest, abiding by God's laws in all faith and humility and eschewing all vanity, conceit, falsehood, intemperance, pride, lust and faint-heartedness, read no farther lest I prove fatal to you. For I am the watery venomous serpent who lies buried at the earth's centre; I am the fiery dragon who flies through the air. I am the one thing necessary for the whole Opus. I am the spirit of metals, the fire which does not burn, the water which does not wet the hands. If you find the way to slay me you will find the philosophical mercury of the wise, even the White Stone beloved of the Philosophers. If you find the way to raise me up again, you will find the philosophical sulphur, that is, the Red Stone and Elixir of Life. Obey me and I will be your servant; free me and I will be your friend. Enslave me and I am a dangerous enemy; command me and I will make you mad; give me life and you will die. ~ Patrick Harpur
Intemperance quotes by Patrick Harpur
Who can understand the deeply bonded alloy of order and intemperance that is its foundation? ~ Thomas Mann
Intemperance quotes by Thomas Mann
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. ~ Jonathan Swift
Intemperance quotes by Jonathan Swift
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
Intemperance quotes by Douglas William Jerrold
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. ~ Francis Quarles
Intemperance quotes by Francis Quarles
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Intemperance quotes by Walter Savage Landor
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Intemperance quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us. ~ Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
Intemperance quotes by Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
Intemperance is the physician's provider. ~ Publilius Syrus
Intemperance quotes by Publilius Syrus
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free ~ Amelia Bloomer
Intemperance quotes by Amelia Bloomer
Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late ... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education ... We must begin higher up, namely in Education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intemperance quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance. ~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
Intemperance quotes by William Lyon Mackenzie King
Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries are filled and whose libraries are famous. He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom. Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me. I exchange their handy gifts with strangers on trains, and I pretend the gifts are mine. I steal from the great teachers. And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well. ~ Pat Conroy
Intemperance quotes by Pat Conroy
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It ~ William Shakespeare
Intemperance quotes by William Shakespeare
He who desires to be happy must pursue and practice temperance and run away from intemperance as fast as his legs will carry him. ~ Plato
Intemperance quotes by Plato
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. ~ Plutarch
Intemperance quotes by Plutarch
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to ~ Phillips Brooks
Intemperance quotes by Phillips Brooks
Satan tempted them to regard this restriction as unjust and cruel. He caused them to lust after forbidden things, because he saw that the unrestrained indulgence of appetite would tend to produce sensuality, and by this means the people could be more easily brought under his control. The author of disease and misery will assail men where he can have the greatest success. Through temptations addressed to the appetite he has, to a large extent, led men into sin from the time when he induced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit. It was by this same means that he led Israel to murmur against God. Intemperance in eating and drinking, leading as it does to the indulgence of the lower passions, prepares the way for men to disregard all moral obligations. When assailed by temptation, they have little power of resistance. ~ Ellen G. White
Intemperance quotes by Ellen G. White
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Intemperance quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works. ~ Seneca.
Intemperance quotes by Seneca.
The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything of ours is not approved of, we cry out that we are being bitterly assailed; and when we can repel the truth by no other pretence, we escape by attributing bitterness, impatience, intemperance, to our adversaries. ~ Martin Luther
Intemperance quotes by Martin Luther
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own. ~ William Faulkner
Intemperance quotes by William Faulkner
Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. ~ Thomas Sherlock
Intemperance quotes by Thomas Sherlock
Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart. ~ Thomas F. Wilson
Intemperance quotes by Thomas F. Wilson
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