selfrestraint

Do yourself a favor and practice selfrestraint when you encounter ignorance.

Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

Do yourself a favor and practice selfrestraint when you encounter ignorance.

Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

Second, disciplined selfrestraint in respecting the majority's policy choice.

Remarks By The President And Judge Ginsburg ITY National Archives 1993

'Dr Anderson,' said the Captain, with great selfrestraint, 'you may be an excellent geologist, but you don't know much about celestial mechanics.

2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

The coroner commended the white police for their selfrestraint and put the blame squarely on the African constables.

Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18 Ray Esther 1969

God, and only one aim, to mount up to Him; that evil is nothing but separation from God, and the world of sense only an unreal appearance; that we can only attain to God by self-discipline and selfrestraint, by contemplation ever rising from lower to higher spheres, and finally by an indescribable intoxication, an ‘ecstasy,’ in which God Himself embraces the soul and sends His light upon her:

Monasticism: Its Ideals and History and The Confessions of St. Augustine 1851-1930 1911

a short interval of selfrestraint, into debauchery which all Christian divines condemn as sinful, and which, in an elderly man married to an agreeable young wife, is regarded even by people of the world as disreputable.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829