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restrain
«Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.»
«To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature»
Author: Adam Smith
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
affections, benevolent, constitute, restrain, selfishness
«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.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
acquired taste, excessive, exclusive, purify, restrain, well-being
«The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.»
«Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
desires, restrain, restrained, restraining, restrains, weak
«Those who restrain their wandering mind, keeping it steady and stable, obtain the supreme status, by Guru's Grace.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
restrain
«Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
restrain, restrained