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Letter "T" » temper
«Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.»
«I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.»
Author: Julia Roberts
(Actress)
| About:
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
amused, legitimate, lightness, lost cause, normally, temper
«It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it»
«It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
countenance, countenanced, countenances, exercises, opens, softened, softening, softens, temper, washes, wash away
«I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.»
«It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
controversy, dispute, exact, gains, good-tempered, good temper, in dispute, scores, shown, temper
«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»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bad temper, good-tempered, good temper, hungriest, hungry, put down, temper, tired, worried
«It takes me along time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog»
«Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.»
«Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Moderation,
Virtue
| Keywords:
in principle, moderation, temper, vice
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