Quotes with fasting

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• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

  Abraham Cahan
  Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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• To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian (1912 - 1989)
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• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  Jerome of Stridon
  Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• pleasures
• praying
• victory
• purpose
• stomach
• reward

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