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• How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

  Teresa of Avila

  Thinking, Too Much, Sin

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1946). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

  Bhartrhari

  Adversity, Men, Evil

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Regret, Winning

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• Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Exercise, Order, Issues

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

  John Ray

  Soul, Counselor, Your Soul

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• If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

  Nagarjun

  Desire, Ease, Ifs

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• Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience… many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

  Pope Clement I

  Two, Enemy, Saint

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• The water in music the oar forsakes. The air in music the wing forsakes. All things in move in music and write it. The mouse, lizard, and grasshopper sing together on the Turlock sands, sing with the morning stars.

  John Muir

  Morning, Stars, Moving

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.203, The Mountaineers Books

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• The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

  John Dryden

  Sex, Curiosity, Maids

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1856). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Containing the Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.404

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• The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight are rolling like thunder now as I look in your eyes. I hold on to your body and feel each move you make, your voice is warm and tender, a love that I could not forsake.

  Celine Dion

  Romantic, Morning, Moving

  Song: The Power of Love

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• We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.

  Philip Gulley

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.

  Guru Nanak

  Men, Giving, Vedas

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• The man who, for party, forsakes righteousness, goes down; and the armed battalions of God march over him.

  Wendell Phillips

  Integrity, Party, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 352, 1895.

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• The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Saint, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

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• By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!

  Zoroaster

  Hero, Diversity, Soul

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• Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.

  Abu Dhar al-Ghifari

  Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

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• Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Greed, Soul, Treasure

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• A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'

  Muhammad

  Art, Men, Reality

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• Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy -for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Blessed

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• Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

  Andre Breton

  Believe, Men, Drug

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• Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.

  Thomas More

  May, Way, Tribulation

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• As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins. Then, in prayer, ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

  C. Scott Grow

  Prayer, Mistake, Loss

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• Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Needles

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