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Abstinence is approved of God. - Geoffrey Chaucer Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. - Horace Greeley The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") By forebearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") 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. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") 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. - Henry Home, Lord Kames Abstinence is the surety of temperance. - Plato (originally Aristocles} Too much is a vanity; enough is a feast. - Francis Quarles Never add artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice until thou findest that time hath decayed thy natural heat. - Sir Walter Raleigh (1) Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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. - William Shakespeare Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. - Bishop Robert South Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. - John Tillotson 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. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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