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temper
«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 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
«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
«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