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You shun your spirit,' he murmured, 'every time you agree to sell your days to the city, to measure out your life at the city's pace. — Martin Amis

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform. — Kay Yow

The great secrets of being courted are, to shun others, and seem delighted with yourself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself
for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory. — Aaron Hill

You can't say that you need to burn witches and shun gay men but eat pork and wear all the mixed fibers you want!! — Heidi Cullinan

Many times, when children enter school they shun mathematics and science during the years when they should be learning the basics. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. — Horace

I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight. — Ed Harris

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. — Aleksandar Hemon

If we serve God, we must not disdain or shun any job, God will not use a lazy man — Sunday Adelaja

Renounce poor work.
Shun trivial work.
Entertain respectable work.
Welcome superior work.
Honor transcendent work. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Anonymity is not necessarily something to shun; we don't have to achieve celebrity to make a mark on the world. — Mal Fletcher

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades,
Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades. — Alexander Pope

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

He that shuns trifles must shun the world. — George Chapman

Always shun whatever may make you angry. — Publilius Syrus

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia. — Michael Moore

If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water. — Herman Melville

I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it. — Madhur Bhandarkar

This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun. — John Armstrong

Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.] — Horace

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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch! — Lewis Carroll

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at. — Philip Massinger

If it's freedom you seek, then wish nothing and shun nothing that depends on others, or you will always be a helpless slave. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise. — Hans Selye

Merely, thou art death's fool,
For him thou labor'st by thy flight to shun,
And yet run'st toward him still. — William Shakespeare

Then to the dance, and make the sober moon ... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon. — William Cowper

When defeated ask yourself what mistakes invited the attack. This kind of positive thinking any fighter must possess. — Wong Shun Leung

Shun epic verse. — Bernard Cornwell

Shun death, is my advice. — Robert Browning

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. — Claude McKay

Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything. — Euripides

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. — Tom Robbins

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you. — Seth Godin

Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much. — Alexander Pope

Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin? — John Pereira

Anything you shun will have won. — L. Ron Hubbard

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare. — John Dryden

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun. — E. V. Knox

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. — St. Jerome

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company. — Horace Walpole

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

If our life is to resemble the gospel, we must shun, not merely the grosser vices, but everything that would hinder our perfect conformity to Christ. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do,
This, teach me more than Hell to shun,
That, more than Heaven pursue. — Alexander Pope

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either. — Jennifer Aniston

The common damn'd shun their society. — Robert Blair

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein

I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. — Samuel Johnson

Great minds against themselves conspire, and shun the cure they most desire. — Nahum Tate

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. — Pope Gregory I

Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Who doth ambition shun And loves to lie in the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets, — T.H. White

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
What shall I do to shun the snares of death? — Christopher Marlowe

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens. — Wendell Berry

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire

There are many who would take my time. I shun them. — Anton Szandor LaVey

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine
simply because it resembled the counterfeit. — Dallas Willard

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you. — Pachomius The Great

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. — Horace

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first. — Anne Bradstreet

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! — John Milton

The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith. — Mark Hodder

How terrible it is to recognize that one's brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others. — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Love, we all talk about it, we all wish for it, and most of the time we shun away from it. — Nadina Boun

The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. — Bill Vaughan

I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect. — Michel De Montaigne

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us. — John Gay

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. — Luis Barragan

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shun the incremental and go for the leap. — Jack Welch

No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny. — Homer

Shun all vice, especially card playing. — Nathan Hale

Let your opponent show you how to defeat him — Wong Shun Leung

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him;
He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him — Confucius

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. — Francis Alexander Durivage

Shun artificial rocks like the plague. — Henry Sherman Adams

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling. — Mason Cooley

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook. — Julia Glass

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. — Horace

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. — Marcus Aurelius

Holy fear is to shun evil. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. — Plutarch

Shun an angry man for a moment-your enemy forever. — Publilius Syrus

The best form of self defense is to become invisible ...
If you can't do that learn Wing Chun! — Wong Shun Leung

We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love. — Charles Spurgeon

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway,

Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that. — William Shakespeare

Thus men who are naturally conscious of what they are shun nothing, so much as rest; they would do anything to be disturbed. — Blaise Pascal

Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. — Idries Shah

Ladies, a second piece of advice
do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk. — Victor Hugo