Resolve to maintain the strictest temperance in eating and drinking. From LearnThat.org.
It is as though you were to take a man into a cellar where there was a vast collection of what we call temperance drinks, and what the Americans call soft drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Belloc Speaks - The Schools] Reference
The word temperance has, we repeat, become narrowed and specialized. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
My constitution won't stand what they call temperance living, or nothing with the chill off. ". From Wordnik.com. [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference
I was before what is generally termed a temperance house. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
Every threat of so-called temperance legislation stimulates it. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
"The amazing consistency of the so-called temperance world," answered. From Wordnik.com. [Three People] Reference
But what are called temperance principles were not known in those days. From Wordnik.com. [The South Sea Whaler] Reference
That is the shameful thing about all our so-called temperance legislation. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
You all know how that wonderful whip called the temperance crusade roused the whisky ring. From Wordnik.com. [Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887] Reference
There was a movement of people (also called temperance) that blamed alcohol for society's tribulations, particularly crime. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
(This is why we call temperance (sophrosune) by this name; we imply that it preserves one's practical wisdom (sozousa tan phronsin). From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
Hence by its very name temperance is most significative of the good of reason to which it belongs to moderate and temper evil desires. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
(This is why we call temperance (sophrosune) by this name; we imply that it preserves one’s practical wisdom (sozousa tan phronsin). From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
As Tibetan Buddhists, we advocate temperance, which is not unconnected to the environment, since we do not consume anything immoderately. From Wordnik.com. ['My Spiritual Journey,' by The Dalai Lama] Reference
Very good, Charmides, said Critias; if you do this I shall have a proof of your temperance, that is, if you allow yourself to be charmed by. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides] Reference
It was what is called a temperance-hall, a room to be hired for public assemblies, with a raised platform at the end, on which were half a dozen men. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
They will be crowned and adorned with a moral virtue called temperance, that the king may always act and refrain from acting according to their advice. From Wordnik.com. [Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages] Reference
But the greatest and fairest sort of wisdom by far is that which is concerned with the ordering of states and families, and which is called temperance and justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Greek View of Life] Reference
"As for us," said Thorwald, "I trust we shall be justified in your eyes at least, before we are through, but let us inquire about those whom you call your temperance friends. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Since it is advertised as a medicine, they can get drunk from its use and still be "temperance" advocates. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
A proof of your temperance, that is, if you allow yourself to be charmed by Socrates, and never desert him at all. From Wordnik.com. [Charmides, or Temperance] Reference
I agree with Zadie Smith's assessment of the virtues of Aristotelian "temperance," or what she conceptualizes as Halifax's "equivocation.". From Wordnik.com. [Zadie Smith on "Speaking in Tongues"] Reference
His temperance is but a sordid thing. From Wordnik.com. [Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight] Reference
I-- No, I guess I'm what you would call temperance when it comes to frolics. ". From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
She threw herself into many causes -- such as temperance and the higher education of women. From Wordnik.com. [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference
More "temperance" in work would probably promote marriage of able and ambitious young people. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
There are rural homes to-day in which the impression still lingers that it is a kind of temperance drink. From Wordnik.com. [Success with Small Fruits] Reference
The Iowa Legislature had passed some kind of temperance law, and the people were to vote on it at the spring election. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler]
Cooking, the only kind of temperance preaching that counts for anything in a school course, is taught in the girls 'classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle with the Slum] Reference
Cooking, the only kind of temperance preaching that counts for anything in a school course, is taught in the girls classes. From Wordnik.com. [XIII. Justice to the Boy] Reference
"temperance," by that virtue which tempers the greatest pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
'temperance' and 'self-mastery' truly express the rule of the better part over the worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
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