Temp'rate in every place—abroad, at home,
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;
And health from either—he in time prepares
For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from
any thyng which he may lawfully take.
Elyot—Govemour. Bk. III. Ch. XVI.
Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not
tame,
When once it is within thee; but before
Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame,
Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.
It is most just to throw that on the ground,
Which would throw me there, if I keep the round.
| author = Herbert
| work = Temple. The Church Porch. Perirrhanterium. St. 5.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance
would be difficult.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Hannah More's Johnsoniana. 467.
s Of my merit
On that pint you yourself may jedge:
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
| author = Lowell
| work = Biglow Papers. First Series. No.
VII. St. 9.
6 If all the world
Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but
frieze,
Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 720.
Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature,
As if she would her children should be riotous
With her abundance; she, good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good,
That live according to her sober laws,
And holy dictate of spare temperance.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 762.
Well observe
The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught
In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. XI. L. 531.
O madness to think use of strongest wines
And strongest drinks our chief support of health,
When God with these forbidden made choice to
rear
His mighty champion, strong above compare,
Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
| author = Milton
| work = Samson Agonistes. L. 553.
- Take less thy body hence, and more thy grace;
' eave gormandizing.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 5. L. 56.
Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance
only
Which your diseoso requires.
Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 124.
TEMPTATION
Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning—The Ring and the Book.
The Pope. L. 1,185.
What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.
Burns—Address to Unco Guid. St. 8.
I may not here omit those two main plagues,
and common dotages of human kind, wine and
women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people: they go commonly together.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Ft. I. Sec.
II. Memb. 3. Subsect. XtH.
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| text = So you tell yourself you are pretty fine clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!
Edmund Vance Cooke—Desire.
The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
George Eliot—Felix Holt. Ch. XLVII.
Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.
Thou shaft abstain,
Renounce, refrain.
Goethe—Faust. I. 4.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in
fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Genesis.
III.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
| author = Herrick
| work = Hesperides. Temptations.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation;
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
of life.
James. I. 12.
Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that
makes the temptation.
Douglas Jerrold—The Catspaw.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
Matthew. XVI. 23.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
| author = Pope
| work = Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 351.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back,
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
King John. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 12.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!
King John. Act rv. Sc. 2. L. 219.
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 257.
