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220 Tilt: 8PItIS(f-TlXl: or LIFE.
trol? These afC maIlY. Let me enumerate
a fl;lW of them.
'rhc perron rec.e£t:ing i1ljUry i~ sure to be
Ucllcllted u,y cxerci~ing this self.control. In.
8t.cad of losiug by being slow to anger awl
ruling his spirit, he gains by it-gninH in rep-
ut.ttiOD, in influencc, and in pence of mind.
This will lift him abo.e the little broils of the
wOTll1, M the 8ummit of th~mountaill j:) lifteu
nuovo the surrounding eloucb. It is iIllJlQ8;:;ible
for anyone to be really alltl permanently
lw.rmed, no matter wlmt in$l1lts are heapeu
upon him, or through wlmt provocations he
may be calloo to pas:) if he can be calm a.uJ
quiet himself. Uneasy lUeD can give us but
little f.!ll;turbancc 1 so long as their uneasiness
i~ not imparted to our feelingf':. rrhorns ill
the hedge we can generally :woiu, but thorns
in the fl('~h are perpetually irritating and 311lioJing
us.
'Vhat injury can all the malic~ of nn un.
gO\Trned tOllgUU 0.0 to a. self-poised, 'sclf-collected
mon? At mo;,;t,it is like n. month fnll
of .!Smoke, blo\\:n upon a diamond, Wllicb,
though it may OOSCUTC it.'l brightness for a
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