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"To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment."
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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."
"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."
"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
"Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
"Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own."
"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath..."
"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"
"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."
"Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread. The strong, unstaggering breeze abounded so, that sky and air seemed vast outbellying sails; the whole world boomed before the wind. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks. Emblazonings, as of crowned Babylonian kings and queens, reigned over everything. The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat."
"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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