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«The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.»
Author: William Henry Harrison
(President)
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«As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«The desire for sensual pleasures fades away if one abstains from sense enjoyment, but the craving [for sense enjoyment] remains. The craving also disappears from the one who has seen [or known] the Supreme.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»
«All philosophy lies in two words: Sustain and Abstain»
«These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, bitch, enviously, glares, glaring, sensuality
«The world is sweet in the heart, and green to the eye; and verily God hath brought you, after those who went before you: then look to your action, and abstain from the world of wickedness»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
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«I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Prudence
| Keywords:
abstain, abstaining, abstains, cautious, contemptuous, excites, expressions, mark, prudence, revenge, the threat of, Threats, weaken, weakening
«To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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abstain, abstaining, abstains, forsake, forsaken, forsakes, forsaking
«Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.»
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