The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Courage enlarges cowardice, diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.