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«Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom of mind, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.»
«Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings»
«Good work done with bad intentions inevitably leads to failure. That is why one should refrain from evil tendencies. »
Author: Yajur Veda | Keywords: Good Work, refrain, tendencies
«How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started -- that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.»
«If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: / Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: / We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: / Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: / My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: / For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.»
«For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: defer, refrain
«For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile (1 Peter 3:10).»
Author: Bible | Keywords: refrain
«If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.»
«In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future»
«It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake»

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