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• Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  Henry Miller

  Self Control, Conformity, No Hope

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

  Daniel Webster

  Freedom, Rights, Tolerance

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions”, p.393

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• To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

  Maimonides

  Law, Perfect, Desire

  Moses Maimonides (2010). “The Guide of the Perplexed”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Discipline enables you to think first and act second.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Discipline, Self Control

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2013

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• At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Cancer, Patriotic, Thinking

  Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1975). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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  Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Patriotic, Equality, Differences

  "Discours prononcé à l'assemblée constituante le 12 Septembre 1848 sur la question du droit au travail". Oeuvres complètes, Volume IX, p. 546, 1866.

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• It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Lust, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.312, Stanford University Press

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• The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

  Rufus Choate

  Government, Finals, Ends

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.53

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• Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sick, Wicked, Comfort

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, James Dallaway (1817). “The Works: I. Letters, during her residence abroad, 1746-1756”, p.151

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• Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

  Daniel Webster

  4th Of July, Liberty, Wholesomeness

  Speech at Charleston Bar Dinner, Charleston, S.C., 10 May 1847

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• I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

  Mae West

  Ifs

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• Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Virtue, Remove

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• It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

  John Ruskin

  Liberty, Literature, Honorable

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• The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work.

  Zach Wamp

  Growth, Spending, Policy

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• Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

  Bill Maher

  Home, Suing, Break

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• A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Wise, Wisdom, Freedom

  Louisa May Alcott, “My Kingdom”

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• Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

  John Lubbock

  Buying, Wells, Asks

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• Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

  Robert Burns

  Motivational, Wisdom, Power

  Robert Burns (2009). “Poems and Songs of Robert Burns”, p.358, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Character, Exercise, Tough

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• And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Heart, Dust, Long

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Character, Technique

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  Barbara Deming

  Cutting, People, Littles

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Love, Life, Sex

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• Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Civilization, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.58, Rajpal & Sons

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• By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

  Propertius

  Rights, Law, Gold

  "Elegies, III". Book by Sextus Propertius, c. 24 B.C.

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