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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed.

Ezra Taft Benson

Good, Good Health, Time, Age, Health

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.

Man, Wife, Sleep, Eating, Humility, Go

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Mother, Kindness, Children, Honesty, Her

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Frances E. Willard

Good, Things, Moderation, Abstinence

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Beauty, Humility, True, Better, Without

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Doctor, Door, Joy, Nose, Slam, Repose

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

Passion, Mind, Which, Simply, Binds

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

Margaret Cavendish

Peace, Live, Pleasure, Delight, Method

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.

Water, People, Result, Perfection, Stone

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Women, Best, Men, Effort, Nothing, Will

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Life, Health, Great, Care, Long, Easy

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Kingsley

Work, Strength, Best, You, Do Your Best

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Mean, Pleasures, Regard

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Tree, Experience, Fruit, Garden, Insult

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Smoke, Me, Mind, Drink, Person, Three

Health consists with temperance alone.

Alone, Health, Consists

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Time, Knowledge, Health, Lost, Medicine

Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Attitude, Time, War, May, Prohibition

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Wish, Never, Accidents, Most, Industrial

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Simple, Dress, Perseverance, Fitness

I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

Woman, War, Christian, Chest, Union

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Election, Thought, Party, Republican

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

I Am, Down, Republican, Toes, Am

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Training, World, Doubt, Armed Forces

Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

War, Nation, Efficiency, Venture, Few

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.

Work, Education, Peace, Great, Together

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