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Showing posts with label self-denial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-denial. Show all posts

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Post #1814

Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not.
—Thomas Carlyle

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Post #1797

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.
—Jane Taylor

Friday, January 10, 2014

Post #1455

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
—Phillips Brooks

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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