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Restraint Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
- There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
- Restraint never ruins one's health.
- I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see…
- More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
- Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
- Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and…
- Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication…
- When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
- Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
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