Oh, my lost strength -- my lost self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
Think of the self-restraint I have placed upon myself!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The single-mindedness can smother self-restraint and common sense. From Wordnik.com. [Ambitious to Fault] Reference
But self-restraint is not a popular virtue among activists of any kind. From Wordnik.com. [FACING THE POWERS THAT BE] Reference
On the contrary, self-restraint has been liberty, strength and blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Winckelmann called it back to simplicity, to self-restraint, to ideality. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Honesty bids us recognise a certain incapacity for self-restraint in Gorki. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
With every year of ripening power his capacity for self-restraint has grown. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
By careful self-restraint, I've managed to forego that pleasure so far, Larry. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Even by this path of self-restraint and verification, however, he is making for. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Then he hastened to make an observation that snapped Springer's self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
Milly answered with a forced self-restraint which appeared like cold deliberation. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
"We call for self-restraint and not to be dragged down by the plots of the enemy.". From Wordnik.com. [War of the Mosques] Reference
It may be too late to restore a degree of serenity and self-restraint, but let's try. From Wordnik.com. [The Year Of The Tear] Reference
Older males, says Gurian, model self-restraint and solid work habits for younger ones. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Boys] Reference
Without some degree of self-restraint in society a man may be found almost insufferable. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"During my lifetime," Aunt Victoria suggested, in the same tone of quiet self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
He had had little training in self-restraint, and his passions were of the primitive sort. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
It has not the least self-restraint or good taste, but it sounds fresh, genuine and sincere. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
In a land of twisted symbols, the Israeli delay in expelling Arafat looks like self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Empty Title] Reference
The socially excluded students also lost a fair amount of self-restraint after being rejected. From Wordnik.com. [All-American Rejects] Reference
But on the ground, or more accurately in the water, the promise of self-restraint was ignored. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Diplomacy Off Course] Reference
She was up early, but had too much self-restraint to go to the acting-room till lessons were over. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Genuine liberty has never been realized, where there has not been also an intelligent self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
It creates fortitude; it begets wisdom; it prompts self-restraint and temperance; it tempers justice. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
The table crashed to the floor as Grell, the last remnants of his self-restraint gone, leapt to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Lent showed us the sterner side of the life of duty, and brought its lessons of self-denial and self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
It cannot legislate within the domain of motive, but it can encourage self-restraint and thrift, honesty and temperance. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
No man can affirm that self-denial ever injured him; on the contrary, self-restraint has been liberty, strength and blessing. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
With Mary Franklin his respectful manner was mingled with an almost tenderness, ever kept in check by a cautious self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
The virtues, also, such as justice, self-restraint, and so on, are not easily dislodged or dismissed, so as to give place to vice. From Wordnik.com. [Categoriae. English] Reference
Every moment deprived him more and more of that self-restraint and that profound consideration for her which he had so long maintained. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Although a man not given to self-restraint where desire is at elbow urging him on, he now stands subdued, unnerved, in Molly's presence. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
But his is a pursuit exposing him to moral perils, which call for peculiar efforts of self-restraint to save him from them; and the moral. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
On the last day of Ramadan, Uganda native Othuman Ntale read one of his favorites passages in the Quran, about fasting and self-restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Ramadan Ends Quietly in US] Reference
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