Temperance

These names of virtues, with their precepts, were:1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

— Temperance

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.

— Temperance

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spiritous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

— Temperance

If all the worldTh' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

— Temperance

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature,And holy dictate of spare temperance.

— Temperance

* Well observeIn what thou eat'st and drink'st.

— Temperance

O madness to think use of strongest winesWhose drink was only from the liquid brook.

— Temperance

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

— Temperance

Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as the first step, holding that the other forms will cease to run riot as before and will be restrained by having learnt that their senior and as it were the leader of their company is obedient to the laws of temperance.

— Temperance

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense,And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own.

— Temperance

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.

— Temperance

Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;Leave gormandizing.

— Temperance

Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance onlyWhich your disease requires.

— Temperance

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 the human race to misery.

— Temperance

If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance.

— Temperance

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue.

— Temperance

And he that will to bed go sober,Falls with the leaf still in October.

— Temperance

Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. [Tar Water.]

— Temperance

Call'd to the temple of impure delightHe cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.

— Temperance

Temp'rate in every place, abroad, at home,For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

— Temperance

Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.

— Temperance

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

— Temperance

Of my meritNor I haint never signed no pledge.

— Temperance