"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

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"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

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"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."

"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

"O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"Love, and do what you like."

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

"It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr."

"We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain."

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"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same."

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."