Definition of Temperance

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Temperance

Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.

State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

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Temperance Quotations

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

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
Aristotle

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

Health consists with temperance alone.
Alexander Pope

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

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.
Billy Sunday

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
Billy Sunday

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.
Stephen Fry

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

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.
Lord Chesterfield

Temperance Translations

temperance in Spanish is templanza, frugalidad

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