If thine eye, therefore, offends thee; if it places a stone or a tree in thy way in a dark night; if it digs a deep ditch right across thy way home; if it in any way leads thee astray, or lets in upon thee thine enemies--then, surely, thou wert better to be without that eye altogether.

Pluck it out, then; or, what is still harder to go on all your days doing, pluck the evil thing out of it.

Shut up that book and put it away.

Throw that paper and that picture into the fire.

Cut off that companion, even if he were an adoring lover.