In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.
I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.
Avoid letting temper block progress-keep cool.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.
A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
I still have a temper, I suppose.
Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.
Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
I lost my temper on stage.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.