Abstinence Quotes

• "Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."
  By: Unknown
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• "We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, "Drink, and away;" but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory."
  By: Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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• "Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason."
  By: Bishop Robert South
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• "His life is parallel'd E'en with the stroke and line of his great justice; He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself which he spurs on his power To qualify in others."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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• "Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason."
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• "Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat."
  By: Sir Walter Raleigh (1)
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• "Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "Abstinence is the surety of temperance."
  By: Plato (originally Aristocles}
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• "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 groundwork of a virtue."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "By forebearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty."
  By: Henry Home, Lord Kames
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• "Abstinence is approved of God."
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer
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• "Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
  By: ^Bierce Ambrose
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