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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 16, 2009
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891  
That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)  
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)  
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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John Milton (1608 - 1674)  
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