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"If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it."
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"Don't be your own devil."

"Control your anger, be calm."

"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...."

"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!"

"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."

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
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"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."
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