The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
If a man can control his body and mind and thereby refrains from eating animal flesh and wearing animal products, I say he will really be liberated.
To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.
What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.
If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.
The big diffrence between a warrior and a victim is that the victim represses and the warrior refrains.
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.
