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    self-restraint


    1. Pablo shook his head subtly in what seemed like self-restraint


    2. I wasn’t sure that I could have that level of self-restraint


    3. Through her the elect of God are saved? Another who has her garments tucked up and acts with vigour is called Self-restraint


    4. For from Faith arises Self-restraint; from Self-restraint Simplicity; from Simplicity Guilelessness; from Guilelessness Chastity; from Chastity Intelligence; and from Intelligence Love


    5. What ruins one’s health is not restraint but outward suppression…The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts


    6. The Western thinking tells us that self-restraint is not good for us


    7. do I have to fret with self-restraint and fear?


    8. It took all my self-restraint not to piss on him when he wittered on about the problems of bringing up a physically and mentally challenged child; sugaring the pill by insisting that god loved me, even if the rest of the world would find it all but impossible to love such a strange little creature


    9. 10 Universe progress is characterized by increasing personality freedom because it is associated with the progressive attainment of higher and higher levels of self-understanding and consequent voluntary self-restraint


    10. The attainment of perfection of spiritual self-restraint equals completeness of universe freedom and personal liberty

    11. Nicodemus was accomplished in self-development, in self-restraint, and even in high moral qualities


    12. Common sense and self-restraint are of course expected and the barman on duty has the right to stop serving customers who are deemed too intoxicated


    13. A la Ghalib, ‘of what avail is my beckoning her / wish she gives up self-restraint’, I hoped for long that the force of attraction would prevail upon her forcing her to seek me; well, she took my phone number before the fiasco of that seduction


    14. However, the moot point that Islam misses here is the need for the male to develop self-restraint in the society of women and not to veil them


    15. As the Upanishads aver, the Satan but resides in one’s mind, and the way to control him is through self-restraint, but, unfortunately, the Musalmans sow wild psychic seeds in the minds of their kids, which in time grow into fundamentalist trees of obscurantist species as Harris had observed


    16. Many sages resign the inclination of their senses to the sacred fire of self-restraint


    17. outward-looking senses are burnt out in the fire of self-restraint, and


    18. the fire of self-restraint, others offer speech and other sense objects to the fire of the senses


    19. maculate seat with total self-restraint, the same mind realizes God within


    20. fering sacrifice to the fire of self-restraint as well as to the fire of the senses, offering pran and apan as oblation to each other, and last of all

    21. by offering them as oblation to the fire of self-restraint to achieve


    22. Similarly, the store of action begins to grow by the coming together of the doer-dedication of mind, agents such as wisdom, disinterest in the material world, repose, and self-restraint by


    23. “Self-restraint, subduing of the senses, innocence, continence,


    24. He smiled, and I decided to humour him, even though it took every shred of self-restraint not to just leap on him then


    25. "Today, I appropriated self-restraint," he says and smiles smugly


    26. I thought I would be able to resist him now that I appropriated some self-restraint from Karl, but no, not at all


    27. Bullivant's having produced an exclamation; and this to the Bishop, after years of not having heard her more than murmur, was almost as disconcerting as if, flinging self-restraint to the winds, she had suddenly produced fresh offspring


    28. He could no longer walk round his own garden without meeting an interlaced couple; and though he suggested to Herr Dremmel with what he felt was really admirable self-restraint that these public endearments might give rise to comment, Herr Dremmel merely replied that as Ingeborg was his _Braut_ it ought to give rise to much more comment, even to justifiable complaints, if his manner to her were less warm


    29. "In England we do not--" began the Bishop; but broke off for fear of losing his self-restraint


    30. Altogether there are 16 sub-species; but fortunately the SCI exercises commendable self-restraint, and puts them all on the same record list

    31. To do so you have to develop forbearance, which is a serene patience and self-restraint under all circumstances, giving good to all, even to those who may want to harm you


    32. The captain, standing a little to one side, was listening to all the curate said, and watching every movement of his brother, who, as soon as he perceived the curate had made an end of his story, gave a deep sigh and said with his eyes full of tears, "Oh, senor, if you only knew what news you have given me and how it comes home to me, making me show how I feel it with these tears that spring from my eyes in spite of all my worldly wisdom and self-restraint! That brave captain that you speak of is my eldest brother, who, being of a bolder and loftier mind than my other brother or myself, chose the honourable and worthy calling of arms, which was one of the three careers our father proposed to us, as your comrade mentioned in that fable you thought he was telling you


    33. In no duty towards others is there more need of reticence and self-restraint


    34. Rinehart showed enormous self-restraint at this news


    35. I shall hold myself strongly in leash, and see whether by this self-restraint I attain a more favorable result


    36. some trouble and self-restraint


    37. Casaubon had many scruples: he was capable of a severe self-restraint; he was resolute in being a man of honor according to the code; he would be unimpeachable by any recognized opinion


    38. Exercising a little self-restraint should not be considered a bad thing, but nowadays it is sometimes seen as an indication of not valuing yourself highly enough to get what you properly deserve


    39. She was speaking as usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make up for lost time


    40. Without any need of self-restraint, no wish to coquet ever entered her head

    41. His frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and firmness


    42. As she swept silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong character, with immense capacity for self-restraint


    43. But strength of mind and self-restraint


    44. ' Well, it came to the ears of the authorities ; the authorities ordered a medal to be given him, so he went about with a medal on his neck ; but he drank himself to death afterwards, they say ; you know the typical Russian, he has no self-restraint! That's why the foreigners have got the better of us so far, yes, there it is ! "


    45. Such strict form—such self-restraint! Something of the sort would be the thing for us


    46. “I wish you would speak plainly, you pig of a fellow!” said Velchaninoff to himself, “I hate hints!” His own anger was on the rise, and he had long been struggling with his self-restraint


    47. All these commandments are reminders of that which we, in our striving for perfection, must and can avoid; reminders, too, that we must labor now to acquire by degrees habits of self-restraint, until such habits become second nature


    48. "No! Not Princess How!" answered the old woman, losing the last shred of self-restraint; but Princess Che-che-vin-ski! Princess Anna Chechevinski!"


    49. “My dear child,” she said, “I knew so well what was about to happen, that I came all the way from New York in order to welcome you into the family, and I think I showed great self-restraint not to tell you so in the carriage when you put that very direct question as to what brought me


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    Synonyms for "self-restraint"

    silence reserve constraint restraint retention coolness