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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again. – Korman’s Law

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The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient. – Susan Rice

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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there; but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This love is silent. – T. S. Eliot

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