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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.
Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) -
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you're acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you're going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you're doing the part. So you'll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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Kanosh the Pauvantee Chief with Several of his band visted me gave them some council & presints. A Spirit Seems to be takeing possesion of the Indians to assist Isreal. I can hardly restrain them from exterminating the Americans
Mountain Meadows massacre Diary of Brigham Young 1857, p. 71 (September 1, 1 -
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
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Only if we can restrain ourselves is conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.
The complete life (1943) -
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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