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«I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.»
Author: Alice Meynell | Keywords: passage, shun
«Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.»
Author: Dr. Hans Selye | Keywords: shun, stress
«They pass through whirlpools, and deep woes do shun, who the event weigh, ere the action's done.»
«Prince, a precept I'd leave for you, Coined in Eden, existing yet: Skirt the parlor, and shun the zoo, Women and elephants never forget»
«No utter surprise can come to him Who reaches Shakespeare's core; That which we seek and shun is there - Man's final lore»
Author: Herman Melville (Novelist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: core, shun, utter
«Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Evil | Keywords: if not, shun, shunned, sincere
«If a person is constantly engaged in good actions then after sometime it becomes his habit and no amount of allurements and temptations can make him shun the virtuous path. He develops a strong character and firm belief in his convictions. »
«Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: attaches, metals, rust, shun
«O! that way madness lies; let me shun that.»
«One should shun all his negative qualities and destructive tendencies. »
Author: Yajur Veda | Keywords: shun, tendencies

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