Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote: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.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost] Quote:Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.[Aristotle] Quote:A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.[Thomas Paine] Quote:I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.[Sydney Harris] Quote:It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.[Doug Plank] Quote:Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. [Aristotle] Definitions of: temperDefinition: To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm.Definition: To fit together; to adjust; to accomodate. Definition: To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. Definition: To govern; to manage. Definition: To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc. Definition: To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use. Definition: To accord; to agree; to act and think in conformity. Definition: To have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. |
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