It is all nonsense about not being able to work without ale and cider
and fermented liquors. Do lions and cart-horses drink ale?--SYDNEY SMITH.
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he who uses it rightly, is more like a
god than a man.--BURTON.
Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule,
that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
--SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a
widow.--JOHN NEAL.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all
virtues.--FULLER.
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from
all fermented liquors.--SYDNEY SMITH.
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, for in my youth I never
did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.--SHAKESPEARE.
TEMPTATION.--'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
--SHAKESPEARE.
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack
the idle.--SPURGEON.
If men had only temptations to great sins, they would always be good;
but the daily fight with little ones accustoms them to defeat.--RICHTER.
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.--DRYDEN.
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
--J.Q. ADAMS.
When a man resists sin on human motives only, he will not hold out
long.--BISHOP WILSON.
We must not willfully thrust ourselves into the mouth of danger, or
draw temptations upon us.
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