"To abstain from the enjoyment which is in……" — Nassau William Senior
"To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
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Nassau William Senior
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14 Quotes by Nassau William Senior
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But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may…
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political…
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production,…
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science…
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One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right…
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The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it…
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The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed,…
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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of…
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Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been…
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles…
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their…
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The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal…
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More Abstain Quotes
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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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— 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…
— Henry David Thoreau
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