“ Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. ”
- Tom T. Hall- Copy
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“ These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The wise man… if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains. ”
- Francois Rabelais- Copy
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“ Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're not doing too bad in those polls. ”
- President George W. Bush- Copy
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“ To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them. ”
- Peretz Smolenskin- Copy
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“ A man can refrain from wanting what he has not, and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
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“ Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad. ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
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“ The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
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“ So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular. ”
- Eduard Hanslick- Copy
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“ To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. ”
- King Solomon- Copy
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