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When you doubt, abstain.

Ambrose Bierce
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If the number of religious converts who converted during a season of intense suffering is high, then does that mean that the number of religious abstainers who abstained because their life was already satisfying is correspondingly low? If so, does this argue for or against religion’s relevance in the world? If theistic religion is attractive, useful, and remedial only for those broken people in the most dismal of needful situations, then is this truly the work of a God or is it just the human psyche gravitating toward a comforting solution?

Michael Vito Tosto, Portrait of an Infidel: The Acerbic Account of How a Passionate Christian Became an Ardent Atheist
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Why am I impatient I am unsure for what is patience? And why should I ultimately feel that I am lacking in it. Is it timing? Waiting? Abstaining? Obligation? Longing? Torture? Perseverance? Discipline? Wanting? Someone recently referred to it as a staring contest between yourself, fate, god and chance. He also referred to it as a tease, a flirt. It's staring at her image when you want to hear her voice, feel her breath, taste her skin. Patience is the recovery from a really hot dream interrupted by the damn alarm clock. Patience is a hard cock with bound hands.

LEONORA MORRISON, The Bed and the Bookcase
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Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw
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All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.

Epictetus
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All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.

Epictetus
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From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Francois Rabelais
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Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce
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Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.

Clement of Alexandria
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot
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