Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.
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How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be not concerned with right or wrong, for the conflict between right and wrong is the sickness of the mind.
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The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
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The president is trying to head out in a direction that avoids civil war in Iraq, and that prevents the insurgents from dominating and establishing some sort of fundamentalist regime.
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An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
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Who escapes duty, avoids a gain.
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Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
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The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids
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Proverbs 16:17:
The highway of the upright avoids evil; those who guard their ways preserve their lives.
(NIV)
The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; he who guards his way preserves his life.
(AMP)
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
(KJV)
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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A man is known by the company he avoids.
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