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Self-restraint
SELF-RESTRAINT

Definition: The ability to stop yourself from doing or saying something that you want to because you know it is better not to.
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* All eight elements would be in.


1. Purposeful and considered necessary.

2. Restraint is of your own freewill! (To emphasize!)

3. Well-thought before exercised. (Connect to #8.)
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See perfect HESITATION (1).


Quote: "Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint". - James Russell Lowell.
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4. What you refrain from doing or what is left unsaid is possessed. That is, there is something that you have under your control which could have been done or said.

5. You sustain no loss or disadvantage from your inaction or silence. [Or what seems a loss, if any, is not overwhelming.]

6. Inaction or silence lasts for appropriate duration in your estimation (connect to #5).
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See perfect HESITATION (2).


Quote: "The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts". - Willard Gibbs.



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7. Purpose(s) is/are served by the restraint, as you hope for.

8. You have no regret(s) for position adopted (connect to #7).
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See perfect HYPOCRISY.


Quote: "The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labour and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty". - Theodore Roosevelt.

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