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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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"There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice."
"When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself."
"Self-control is a divided battle in one body. The "self" produces desires that "you" must battle with and kick off. Two wrestlers in one body. Just imagine. It's difficult, though rewarding!"
"You may not be able to do anything about how you feel, but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not...."
"Control your anger, be calm."
"Don't be your own devil."
"But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins."
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."
"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune."
"Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world."
"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
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