Temper. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Temper


Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She, who can own a sister’s charms, and hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; She who ne’er answers till a husband cools, And if she rules him, never shows she rules. Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. To a Lady, Line 257.	1
And mistress of herself though china fall. Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. To a Lady, Line 268.	2
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue. Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book VI. Canto I. Ver. 41.	3
I’ll make them live as brothers should with brother, And keep them in good-humour with each other. Churchill.—Night, Line 67.	4
A sunny temper gilds the edges of life’s blackest cloud. Guthrie.—The Gospel in Ezekiel, Ch. iv. p. 67.	5