However, through the excessive self-restraint of celibacy this vital energy can be unleashed with devastating effect.
en.wikipedia.org His artistic sense was perhaps in excess of his technical powers, and his self-restraint makes of his work something very suitable to certain occasions.
en.wikipedia.org For internal peace, he advised young people to remain busy, earn a livelihood, observe self-restraint, and to remain under the guidance of an honest and truthful person.
en.wikipedia.org Despite those constitutional linkages, however, the avoidance doctrine is most commonly classified as a prudential rule of judicial self-restraint.
en.wikipedia.org Capitalism needs a moral culture to nourish self-restraint, hard work, discipline and sacrifice(p57) and a political system committed to limited government, a sound currency, and regulation of competition.
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