And, exactly as a man denies himself--no more and no less--his appetites, his passions, his thoughts and words and deeds, every day and every hour of every day, just so much shall He who searches our hearts and sees us in secret, acknowledge us, both every day now, and at the last day of all.
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This same Captain Self-denial, his history goes on, was stout, he was an hardy man also, and a man of great courage.

Stout and hardy and of great courage at home, that is; in his own mind and heart, soul and body, that is.

Young Captain Self-denial was a perfect hero at saying No! and at saying No! to himself.

It is a proverb that there is nothing so difficult as to say that monosyllable.