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intemperance
1. In the political body, however, the wisdom of nature has fortunately made ample provision for remedying many of the bad effects of the folly and injustice of man ; it the same manner as it has done in the natural body, for remedying those of his sloth and intemperance
2. shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, in which corruption is past, 44 Intemperance is at an
3. port, 7 so that seven-towered right reasoning of the young men, securing the harbour of religion, conquered the intemperance of
4. 43 But the day of doom shall be the end of this time and the beginning of the immortality for to come in which corruption is past 44 Intemperance is at an end infidelity is cut off righteousness is grown and truth is sprung up; 45 Then shall no man be able to save him who is destroyed nor to oppress him who has gotten the victory
5. 5 How then can we avoid according to these men mastery of passion through right reasoning since they drew not back from the pains of fire? 6 For just as by means of towers projecting in front of harbours men break the threatening waves and so assure a still course to vessels entering port 7 so that seven-towered right reasoning of the young men securing the harbour of religion conquered the intemperance of passions
6. This intemperance in eating is thus injurious to you who have abundance and do not distribute among those who are needy
7. addicted to the vice of intemperance
8. temperance or the opposite of intemperance
9. �It is the city where sensuality, intemperance, and worldly amusements of the vilest kind flourish most rankly, and find a congenial atmosphere,-It is the city where ungodliness and irreligion meet with the greatest encouragement, and the unhappy Sabbath-breaker, or neglecter of all means of grace, can fortify himself behind the example of others, and enjoy the miserable comfort of feeling that "he does not stand alone!"�It is the city which is the chosen home of every form of superstition, ceremonialism, enthusiasm, and fanaticism in religion
10. Walk through the north end of Liverpool on Saturday evening, or Sunday, or on a Bank Holiday, and see how Sabbath-breaking, intemperance, and general ungodliness appear to rule and reign uncontrolled
11. Look where we will, we see confusion, quarrels, wars between nations, helplessness of statesmen, discontent and grumbling of the lower classes, excessive luxury among the rich, extreme poverty among the poor, intemperance, impurity, dishonesty, swindling, lying, cheating, covetousness, heathenism, superstition, formality among Christians, decay of vital religion,�these are the things which we see continually over the whole globe, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
12. Don Antonio's wife came up and said, "I know not what to ask thee, Head; I would only seek to know of thee if I shall have many years of enjoyment of my good husband;" and the answer she received was, "Thou shalt, for his vigour and his temperate habits promise many years of life, which by their intemperance others so often cut short
13. produced by the last night's intemperance, which he took no pains to conceal,
14. He may even spend in dissipation, and intemperance, the very
15. intemperance which renders him so hateful, her property, and by stinting her
16. The soul too has her own corrupting principles, which are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and the like
17. But shall our superintendence go no further, and are the poets only to be required by us to express the image of the good in their works, on pain, if they do anything else, of expulsion from our State? Or is the same control to be extended to other artists, and are they also to be prohibited from exhibiting the opposite forms of vice and intemperance and meanness and indecency in sculpture and building and the other creative arts; and is he who cannot conform to this rule of ours to be prevented from practising his art in our State, lest the taste of our citizens be corrupted by him? We would not have our guardians grow up amid images of moral deformity, as in some noxious pasture, and there browse and feed upon many a baneful herb and flower day by day, little by little, until they silently gather a festering mass of corruption in their own soul
18. Then no intemperance or madness should be allowed to approach true love?
19. But when intemperance and diseases multiply in a State, halls of justice and medicine are always being opened; and the arts of the doctor and the lawyer give themselves airs, finding how keen is the interest which not only the slaves but the freemen of a city take about them
20. You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self- restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance?
21. intemperance enslaves them to: the one, parent of health, vigour fertility
22. See, Ned my friend, see the monstrous results of intemperance!"
23. Her industrious sons and daughters, who are nearly all tdtal abstainers, live in abject poverty, and their misery is not caused by laziness or want of thrift, or by Intemperance
24. Nay, she had even witnessed in the home circle deeds of violence caused by intemperance and had seen her own father, a prey to the fumes of intoxication, forget himself completely for if there was one thing of all things that Gerty knew it was that the man who lifts his hand to a woman save in the way of kindness, deserves to be branded as the lowest of the low
25. Thus temperance makes men lords over those pleasures that intemperance enslaves them to: the one, parent of health, vigour fertility cheerfulness, and every other desirable good of life; the other, of diseases, debility, barrenness, self-loathing, with only every evil incident to human nature
26. Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him
27. Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously
28. Inspired by his love for men, Jesus taught them not to depend upon security based upon violence, and not to seek after riches, just as we teach the common people to abstain, for their own interest, from quarrels and intemperance
29. And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and in writing books; and of course the governments sympathize with it all, pretending that they approve of it; just as they pretend to support temperance, while they actually derive the larger part of their income from intemperance; just as they pretend to maintain liberty of the constitution, when it is the absence of liberty to which they owe their power; just as they pretend to care for the improvement of the laboring classes, while on oppression of the workman rest the very foundations of the State; just as they pretend to uphold Christianity, when Christianity is subversive of every government
30. In order to accomplish these ends they have long since instituted laws in regard to intemperance that can never avail to destroy it; educational projects that not only do not prevent the spread of ignorance, but do everything to increase it; decrees in the name of liberty that are no restraint upon despotism; measures for the benefit of the working-man which will never liberate him from slavery; they have established a Christianity which serves to prop the government rather than destroy it
31. The poverty of the people is not the result of private property in land, nor of capitalistic oppression, but of other causes: it is the result of the ignorance, brutality, and intemperance of the people
32. I am in hopes, too, sir, that I have been so fortunate as to check the intemperance of the youth of my country
33. Speaker, what would be your conduct on such an occasion? Would you be apt to look as much at the nature of the propositions, as at the temper of the assailant? If you did not at once return blow for blow, and injury for injury, would you not at least take a little time to consider? Would you not tell such an assailant, that you were not to be bullied nor beaten into any concession? If you settled at all, might you not consider it your duty in some way to make him feel the consequences of his strange intemperance of passion? For myself, I have no question how a man of spirit ought to act under such circumstances
34. McLean of Texas, on "The Evils of Intemperance to the Colored Race