Refrain
To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
To abstain from
To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
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Refrain Quotations
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
Mark Twain
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Marcus Aurelius
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace
I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.
Gloria Swanson
Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.
Lawrence Lessig
Refrain Translations
refrain in French is refrain
refrain in Italian is ritenere, ritornello, ritornello
refrain in Spanish is estribillo
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