Mastering the Art of Self-Control | Life Lessons
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 682 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Mastering the Art of Self-Control. Edited and adapted from Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: A strong temper is not necessarily a bad temper. But the stronger the temper, the greater the need for self-discipline and self- control. It is not our faults that ruin us, so much as the manner in which we conduct ourselves after the faults have been committed. The wise person will profit by the suffering they cause, and avoid them in the future; but there are those on whom experience exerts no ripening influence, and who only grow narrower, bitterer, and more vicious with time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 1:35.1 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 1:38.0 | Character Sketches for Boys and Girls by Henry Davenport Northrop, published in 1899. |
| 1:52.1 | Self-control is only courage in another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of |
| 2:00.3 | character. |
| 2:01.8 | Indeed, there can be no true manhood or womanhood without it. |
| 2:06.9 | Self-control is at the root of all the virtues. |
| 2:10.8 | Let a person give the reins to their impulses and passions, |
| 2:15.2 | and from that moment on, they yield up their moral freedom. |
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