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To refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice




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All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. - Epictetus

It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country; I have more reason than anyone to feel, every day of my life, the value of the blood which flows in my veins, and it is only from prudence that at times I abstain from showing how proud I am of it. - Marie Antoinette

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. - Saint Augustine

When you doubt, abstain. - Ambrose Bierce

A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood. - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices. - Sharron Angle

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. - Nikola Tesla

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