Timothy and Titus are to hold fast the deposit, to prevent false teaching, to secure wholesomeness of doctrine no less than sobriety of life.
By moderation and sobriety in the use of the bodily faculties, he often preserves health and contentment of the bodily nature, his honour in external relations, and his good name.
Sobriety wishes not to taste nor know those things which are not permitted.
Sobriety separates the higher faculties from the animal faculties, and preserves a man from excesses.
This sobriety is reduced to two things, quality and quantity.
They would then be considered as saints, indeed, upon earth, as those primitive Christians were led, who joined sobrietyto so recluse a life.
It cannot be said, that sobriety is apt to shorten one's days, as sickness does; and that the latter abbreviates life, is most certain.
Hence it may be fairly concluded, that holy sobriety is the true parent of health and longevity.
At present everything carries the appearance of sobriety and economy.
On the other hand, the negro regiments speedily became favorably known because of greater sobriety and of fewer desertions than among the white soldiers.
She ridiculed thesobriety of Ferragut, who was diluting with water the reddish blackness of the Italian wine.
His sobriety was that of the ancient sailor,--the sobriety of Father Ulysses who used to mix wine with water in all his libations.
These Bretons, accustomed to the discipline and sobriety of other vessels, admired greatly the extraordinary privileges of a cook who could display as much generosity as the captain himself.
The dull, old-fashioned sobriety which formerly prevailed is nearly banished, and cheerfulness, vivacity, and enjoyment are substituted in its stead.
I don't know, however, but this girl will really have that merit with me; for I am so much attached to her that I begin to suspect I should sooner become a convert to sobriety than lose her.
I have been associated for three days with sentiment and sobriety in the person of Mr. Boyer.
I find the ideas of sobriety and domestic solitude I have been cultivating for three days past somewhat deranged by the interruption of a visitor, with whom I know you will not be pleased.
Nor can he deny that they combine sobriety with pluck, and businesslike behavior with good feeling; that they are as full of honor as of resource, and as sportsmanlike as sagacious.
Yet I for one would not barter the pages that tell of Joe Morris's final surrender of his wife--with their justness of imagination and sobriety of speech--for any amount of pity and terror.
And with all this, there is no vulgarization of sacred ground, no cheap parade of the heart's secrets; but a deep sobriety relieved with the most delicate humor.
Such pieces as exist are distinguished by careful workmanship, archaic designs, and sobriety of colour.
In the graver hours of activity and industry, sobriety may be proper.
Think not however again to approach her in the coolness of reason, and the sobriety of the judgment.
He declined drinking, and was backed in his abstemiousness by Phelim, who knew that sobriety on the part of Sam would leave himself more liquor.
If you feel your heart inclined to the right I course, do not let want of money prevent you from pledging yourself to sobriety and temperance.
And an older man than Wordsworth (at that era not fully nineteen), and a man even without a poet's blood in his veins, might have leave to forget his sobriety in such circumstances.
I perceived the immense advantage which sobrietygave me over a drunkard, and I failed not to profit by it.
The trembling middy advanced to the table, and having most respectfully deposited his journals and certificates of sobriety and good conduct, was desired to sit down.
I ain't aimin' at pompousness none, but thar's a sobriety goes with them years of mine which I proposes to maintain if I has to do it with a blacksnake whip.
Nor was there any evil in his life--a life of sobriety and of chastity, as well as of toil.
Sobriety hath by use obtained to signify temperance in drinking.
Ramsay's sobriety here shines in comparison with all the fables and idylls of his age.
It arises again from the greatsobriety of the Quakers.
One must wait for the elaboration of Vishnu Purana, for instance, in order to meet that apparent sobriety of mathematical detail which is utilized to add credibility to the most fantastic time system that imagination ever devised.
And it is a distinct blot upon the Christian Church in India that many of its followers, in this land of sobriety and abstinence, so easily fall into the temptation of the cup and become the victims of intemperance.
