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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…
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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…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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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…
— Julien Benda
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Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian,…
— C.S. Lewis
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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…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Jesus isn't coming for a church that's gritting her teeth, struggling to stay free from sin, secretly wishing she could indulge in…
— Mike Bickle
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As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it`s the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your…
— Lily Allen
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Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our…
— Joseph Butler
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Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
— W.C. Fields
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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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…
— Herman Wouk
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The Supreme Lord said: Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures,…
— Bhagavad Gita
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Every human being will have to go before Jesus and give an account of the life they lived. What will your story…
— Creflo Dollar
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