The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.
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O woman! Lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you.
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A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself
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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.
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In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances
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A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.
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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter
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My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice
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Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.
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