A man who stands above whim and caprice is a superior in strength to a man who permits his caprices to direct him.
What we call character has its emotions and passions, its affections and intense sympathies, but mastered and controlled into a whole of outward justice and fairness.
The true freeman fights himself free from blind feeling and impulse; he is a happy warrior and fights on a battlefield where his convictions and emotions are a unit.
The Martyrs possessed such self control that burning at the stake, or limbs torn by savage beast did not wring a note of pain from them. “But,” you say, “that was Divine strength.” Of course, and any one who desires the same Divine strength to aid him control his emotions, may have it for the asking.
DON’T BE A DREAMER
Waste no Time Dreaming of the Past
You are living in the present preparing for the future. The past is dead and you should let the past bury the past.
The man who dreams of the past and forgets his future, is like a man who rises in the morning not of today but of yesterday. He is going backward when his face is put in front pointing always forward.
Life is too short to be wasted in vain regrets for what has transpired in the past. Even yesterday is ancient history and best forgotten.
We have work to do in the present to perfect or accomplish something in the future; it is our time of grace, given us to grasp at opportunities as they come before us.