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Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.Miguel de Unamuno
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 10714. Printed attribution: Schopenhauer. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Modesty is the handmaid of virtue.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 1093. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_1093
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Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 17730. Printed attribution: Sterne. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105