If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.
Harold BrodkeyRefined himself to soul, to curb the sense And made almost a sin of abstinence.
john drydenWe ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force: God therefore let him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence.
john miltonI'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.
joycelyn eldersCondoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
joycelyn eldersMy experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spiritous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
robert e. leeThank you dear Father Massimiliano, I'll try not to let you down and I promise you two and a half months of complete sexual abstinence until April 9 [election].
Silvio BerlusconiPrudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.
Anton ChekhovWe're doing a great disservice to our young people because the only protection is abstinence, as condoms have been proven fallible....The federal government should not be telling young people to use condoms....It's also an insult to teenagers, reducing them to the level of a dog that can't control its hormones.
Christine O'DonnellWe do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.
Alfred North WhiteheadTea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
samuel johnsonAgainst diseases here the strongest fence, Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Robert HerrickThe whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.
What God is he, writes laws of peace, & clothes him in a tempest What pitying Angel lusts for tears, and fans himself with sighs What crawling villain preaches abstinence & wraps himself In fat of lambs? no more I follow, no more obedience pay!
abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
samuel johnsonabstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.
abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
samuel johnsonCondoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spiritous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.