Intemperance Quotes
These are some of the best 'Intemperance' quotations and sayings.
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All the armies on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.
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Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
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Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.
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Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than the habit of drinking.
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He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
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He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever.
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I never drink. - I cannot do it on equal terms with others. - It costs them only one day; but it costs me three; the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
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If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to give healthy exercise to the charitable impulses.
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In intoxication men betray their real characters. - So in prosperity there is a no less honest and truth-revealing intoxication than in wine. - The varnish of power brings forth at once the defects and the beauties of the human portrait.
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In our world death deputes intemperance to do the work of age.
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Intemperance is a dangerous companion. - It throws people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in gambling, and often stagger from the tavern to the stews.
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleas-ance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
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Of all calamities this is the greatest.
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The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday, weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that particle of the divine spirit.
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The habit of intemperance by men in office has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes; and, were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate for office, would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"
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The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood, which are great benefits in temper and business.
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There is no vice in nature more debasing and destructive to men than intemperance. It robs them of their reason, reputation, and interest. It renders them unfit for human society. It degrades them below the beasts that perish, and justly exposes them to universal odium and contempt.
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Touch the goblet no more; it will make thy heart sore, to its very core.
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When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
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Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind, is to cure melancholy by madness.
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