Abstain Quotes
92 quotes by 77 authors
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— Saint Augustine
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When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
— Ambrose Bierce
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is…
— Carre Otis
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain…
— George Washington
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"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange…
— Ayn Rand
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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe…
— John Randolph of Roanoke
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Pilate sentenced him due to fear, in accordance with the petition and intention of others. These people sentence him for their own advantage and without…
— Bridget of Sweden
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
— Seneca the Younger
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined.…
— Timothy Leary
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The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever…
— Conan O'Brien
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Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
— John Green
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Abstain from all sinful, unwholesome actions, perform only pious wholesome ones, purify the mind; this is the teaching of enlightened ones
— Gautama Buddha
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But look at the men who have those perverted notions about the grace of Jesus Christ which has come down to us, and see how…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.
— Gautama Buddha
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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