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Letter "A" » abstinence
«Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.»
Author: Frances E. Willard
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«The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.»
«The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor»
«You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence»
«Serving the True Guru brings a deep and profound peace, and one's desires are fulfilled. Abstinence, truthfulness and self-discipline are obtained, and the body is purified; the Lord, Har, Har, comes to dwell within the mind. Such a person remains blissful forever, day and night. Meeting the Beloved, peace is found.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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abstinence, blissful, day-and-night, fulfilled, purified, The Beloved
«Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.»
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