temperance

• Somewhere between lies temperance, which seems an easy solution, but there is no definition of temperance which is generally applicable, and, wherever the limit may be set, there, on either side of it, the antagonistic impulses appear again,--one of indulgence, the other of restraint,--producing pitfalls of vice and ruin, and ever renewing the strain and torment of the problem of right and duty. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• Always a perfectly temperate man, as became an earnest, devoted young Christian, he had never been known as a temperance man, that is, an advocate of total abstinence principles, and an active worker in the cause. —  Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life
• You see what I want to get at is temperance--temperance all round, towards everything and everybody--not fanaticism, which, in some respects, is a much easier attitute of mind Richard looked up into the whispering, green tide overhead Yes, one must deny oneself the luxury of fanaticism, if possible," he said, "deny oneself the vanity of eccentricity. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• The captain, who sleeps all the daytime, and comes and goes at night as he chooses, can have his brandy and water in the cabin, and his hot coffee at the galley; while Jack, who has to stand through everything, and work in wet and cold, can have nothing to wet his lips or warm his stomach This was a "temperance ship," and, like too many such ships, the temperance was all in the forecastle. —  Two Years Before the Mast
• Christ showed that without the spirit of love even such excellences as courage, temperance, and justice did not attain to their true meaning or yield their full implication. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics

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