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Tag Name "Abstaining" (10)

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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
W. C. Fields
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An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .
Ibn Ata Allah
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I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.
Lauren Mayberry
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.
Anne Taylor Fleming
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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
Herman Wouk
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I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.
Matt Roper