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A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Humor
George Eliot

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There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
Restraint
Mahatma Gandhi

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Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
Unity
Mahatma Gandhi

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Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.
Freedom
David Lloyd George

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Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Punishment
Horace

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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
Flirting
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Laughter
Abraham Lincoln

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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
Self-control
James Russell Lowell

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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Friends and Friendship
Robert Lynd

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller

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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.
Motivation
Alexander Pope

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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Restraint
John Ruskin

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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Hatred
Seneca

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Youth
Seneca

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
Restraint
Seneca

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Shame
Seneca

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Joy is free, unrestrained passion
Joy
Eileen Stukane

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Conflict
Henry David Thoreau

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Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things.
Opportunity
Source Unknown

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In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
Voting
Source Unknown

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Some people develop eye strain looking for trouble
Trouble
Source Unknown

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Silence
Source Unknown

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There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.
Cheerfulness
Source Unknown

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Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Liberty
Daniel Webster

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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Liberty
Daniel Webster

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