In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.


Pythagoras

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Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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To Err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
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A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.
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The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
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Sometimes, you must refrain from doing things you want so bad."
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The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.
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SEAN MCCORMACK
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you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.
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We should seek the greatest value of our action.
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Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
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