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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
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"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
"Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"Refuse to react to any angry actions."
"Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can."
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"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
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