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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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