temperance
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He indicates how later generations took the Declaration as an inspiration for their own causes, from temperance to women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Anna Marshall, author of The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay, links it to a reaction against the temperance movement in the early 1800s.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Our affect becomes less impacted by the precarity of external events and instead, we can concentrate on cultivating certain virtues like wisdom, courage, justice and temperance.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
Her reply survived: “I am sitting with Mamma instead of going to church. I shall find it much pleasanter to have a little talk with you than to listen to Allen’s temperance sermon.”
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing temperance
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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