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Speaker 1: Exhortation, Disciples of truth, lovers of virtue, seekers of wisdom,

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You also, who are sorrow stricken, knowing the emptiness of

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the self life, and who aspire to the life that

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is supremely beautiful and serenely joyful, Take now yourselves in hand,

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Enter the door of discipline and know the better life.

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Put away self delusion, behold yourself as you are, and

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see the path of virtue as it is. There is

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no lazy way to truth. He who would stand upon

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the mountain's summit must strenuously climb, and must rest only

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to gather strength. But if the climbing is less glorious

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than the cloudless summit, it is still glorious. Discipline in

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itself is beautiful, and the end result of discipline is sweet.

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Rise early in meaday, Begin each day with a conquered

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body and a mind fortified against error and weakness. Temptation

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will never be overcome by unprepared fighting. The mind must

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be armed and arrayed in the silent hour. It must

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be trained to perceive, to know, to understand. Sin and

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temptation disappear when right understanding is developed. Right understanding is

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reached through unabated discipline, truth cannot be reached, but through discipline.

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Patience will increase by effort in practice, and patience will

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make discipline beautiful. Discipline is irksome to the impatient man

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and the lover of self, so he avoids it and

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continues to live loosely and confusedly. Discipline is not irksome

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to the lover of truth, and he will find the

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infinite patience which can wait, work and overcome. Just as

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the joy of the gardener who sees his or her

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flowers develop day by day, so is the joy of

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the man of discipline, who sees the divine flowers of purity, wisdom, compassion,

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and love grow within his heart. The loose liver cannot

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escape sorrow and pain. The undisciplined mind falls weak and

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helpless before the fierce onslaught of passion. Array your mind, then,

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lover of truth, be watchful, thoughtful, and resolute. Your salvation

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is at hand. Your readiness and effort are all that

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are needed. If you fail ten times, do not be disheartened.

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If you should fail a hundred times, rise up and

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pursue your way. If you should fail a thousand times,

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do not despair. When the path is entered success is

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sure if the path is not utterly abandoned. First strife

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and then victory, First labor and then rest, First weakness

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and then strength. In the beginning the lower life and

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the glare and confusion of battle, and at the end

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the life beautiful, the silence and the peace, all common

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things each day's events, that with the hour begin an end.

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Our pleasures and our discontents are rounds by which we

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may ascend. We have not wings, we cannot soar, but

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we have feet to scale and climb. Longfellow,