C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | Temperament |
| Temperament is the thermometer of character. Balzac. | 1 |
Women speak in the superlative. Emile Souvestre. | 2 |
Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid. Emerson. | 3 |
Temperament is wax before the human will and God. Natural traits are powerless before moral decisions. Maltbie Babcock. | 4 |
The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect. Lamartine. | 5 |
In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. Hazlitt. | 6 | |
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