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The worst education which teaches self-denial is better than
the best which teaches anything else and not that.
Sterling
There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble
and excellent in the character which is a stranger to the
exercise of resolute self-denial.
Walter Scott
Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and
good women practice.
O. W. Holmes
Self-denial is an excellent guard of virtue for it is safer and
wiser to abate somewhat of our lawful enjoyments than to
gratify our desires to the utmost of what is permitted, lest
the bent of nature toward pleasure hurry us further.
Towson
He is one of the noblest conquerors who carries on a successful
warfare against his own appetites and passions and has them
under wise and full control.
Tryon Edwards
The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.
M. Henry
Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God; and by
making him your partner interests him in all your happiness.
Boyle
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