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"In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless."
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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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"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter."
"To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all."
"Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness."
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
"The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."
"The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach."
"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."
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