Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

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Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

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What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things.

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Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater.

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Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

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Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale were I a swan, the part of a swan.

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