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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
British
Playwright
Born:
May 9
,
1860
Died:
Jun 19
,
1937
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,
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
Abraham Lincoln
Government
Great
Character
People
Will
Country
Difficulties
Great American
Other
Settled
Sides
Adjusted
Temper
Only
Both
Both Sides
Troubles
Come
Like
Surely
Line
Been
Question
End
American
Just
Which
American People
Keep
Now
Originated
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost
Education
Losing
Temper
Ability
Self-Confidence
Almost
Almost Anything
Without
Listen
Anything
Your
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
You
Fool
Will
Enough
Temper
Soon
Make
Quick
I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.
Benjamin Franklin
Truth
Experience
World
Will
Defense
Ought
Philosophical
Apt
Entered
Temper
Disturb
Take
Never
Wrong
Support
Opinions
Leave
Sour
Quiet
Any
Controversy
Them
Right
Disputes
Rejected
Chance
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
Truth
You
Yourself
People
Enemy
Lost
Tell
Temper
About
Only
Dearly
His
Friend
Loves
Who
Two
Two People
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Virtue
Temper
Principle
Always
Moderation
Vice
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.
Arthur Helps
Better
Beauty
Humility
Severe
Temper
Temperance
Cosmetics
Spirit
Purity
Countenance
True
True Beauty
Without
Calmness
Very
Than
Graces
Gracious
Modesty
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
John Keats
Water
Kick
Top
Would
Temper
Scarcely
Come
Am
Were
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
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Ought
Virtue
Temper
Principle
Always
Moderately
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Vice
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