~Tediousness.~--The sin of excessive length.--_Shirley._
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy
man.--_Shakespeare._
~Teeth.~--Teeth like falling snow for white.--~Cowley.~
Such a pearly row of teeth that sovereignty would have pawned her jewels
for them.--_Sterne._
~Temperance.~--Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour
in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in
the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.--_Franklin._
I consider the temperance cause the foundation of all social and
political reform.--_Cobden._
If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails,
then education must fail.--_Horace Mann._
Temperance to be a virtue must be free and not forced. Virtue may be
defended, as vice may be withstood, by a statute, but no virtue is or
can be created by a law, any more than by a battering ram a temple or
obelisk can be reared.--_Bartol._
If you wish to keep the mind clear and the body healthy, abstain from
all fermented liquors.--_Sydney Smith._
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man
happy.--_Voltaire._
He who would keep himself to himself should imitate the dumb animals,
and drink water.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
~Temptation.~--No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been
well tempted.--~George Eliot.~
Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible
series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose
melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden,
sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to
instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest
tension.--_Horace Mann._