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Abstain Quotes
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The leader should abstain from evil tendencies because they would be showing bad precedence to their followers-which is more harmful. . (Quote by - Yajur Veda)
Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons. (Quote by - Proverb)
All philosophy lies in two words,"sustain" and "abstain. (Quote by - Epictetus)
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. (Quote by - Epictetus)
When you doubt, abstain. (Quote by - Zoroaster)
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. (Quote by - John Milton)
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet – who was only another male mammal – is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent. (Quote by - Christopher Hitchens)
There are many unresolved issues, but rates could have been substantially increased today depending on what the federal court did, and so the fact that the court abstained from entering an order that the plaintiffs requested is good for rate payers. (Quote by - Bill Lockyer)
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. (Quote by - Jeremy Taylor)
He played the good ole' boy role and didn't go against them although he was already outvoted. He has the last seat. They had already outvoted him four to one but he still abstained. (Quote by - Cynthia Maddox)