Temper

(168 votes)   The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(163 votes)   It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(113 votes)   A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(110 votes)   Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist

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(110 votes)   Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(105 votes)   Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(105 votes)   Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(80 votes)   Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.

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(55 votes)   When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it.

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(49 votes)   A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet

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