Quotes with refrain

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• Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

  Simone Weil
  French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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• Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

  Horace
  Roman poet
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• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  Bainbridge Colby
  American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

  Aleister Crowley
  British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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• To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

  Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

  Germaine Greer
  Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• destruction
• opposition
• generality
• punishment
• discipline
• resolutely

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