We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life-in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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