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

"Discipline is needed in our temperance."

"Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future."

"Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise."

"You can have it all. Just not all at once."

"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

"Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."

"Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet."

"Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us."
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

"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."

"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again."

"Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
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