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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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Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. – Robert Orben

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength. – Henry Rollins

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If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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