Refrains Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are…
— Samuel Butler
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming…
— Gautama Buddha
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If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really…
— Gautama Buddha
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Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
— Mason Cooley
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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when…
— John Milton
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It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
— William Saroyan
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Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps the single most…
— Jeremy Begbie
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A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long…
— Isak Dinesen
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland…
— Hilary Mantel
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Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of…
— Tom Piazza
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Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature…
— Anuj
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Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a…
— Jean Lorrain
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It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his…
— Moses
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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…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing…
— Rachel Carson
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For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Refrains Quotes
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