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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."
"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!"
"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...."
"Don't be your own devil."
"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
"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."
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"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
"Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense."
"The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune."
"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."
"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."
"Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom."
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