Temperance

"If all the world Should in a pet of temprance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th All-giver would be unthankd, would be unpraisd."

"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."

"Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow."

"These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."

"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."

"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."

"Calld to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam."

"The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity."

"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing."

"Temperance is reasons girdle and passions bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue."

"Ask God for temperance; thats the appliance only Which your disease requires."

"Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. [Tar Water.]"