Restrain
To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
To limit; to confine; to restrict.
To withhold; to forbear.
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Restrain Quotations
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Restrain Translations
restrain in Afrikaans is regeer
restrain in Danish is regere, lede
restrain in Dutch is bedwingen, beteugelen, betomen
restrain in Finnish is hallita
restrain in French is contraignez, contraignons, gouverner, contrains
restrain in Latin is retineo, prohibitio, compescor, coerceo, freno
restrain in Portuguese is reger, contenha
restrain in Spanish is capitanear, refrenar
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