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Abstinence Quotes
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There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. (Quote by - Wilhelm Reich)
Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Multi quidem facilius se abstinent ut non utantur, quam temperent ut bene utantur. For many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. (Quote by - St Augustine)
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. (Quote by - Taylor Jeremy )
Why have a cake if I can`t eat it? (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. (Quote by - W C Fields)
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the ground-work of virtue. By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigour to resolution, and secure the power of resistance when pleasure or interest shall lend their charms to guilt. (Quote by - Johnson)
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. (Quote by - Barney, Natalie Clifford)