What We Cannot Bear Removes Us From

As Surgeons Keep Their Instruments And Knives Always At Hand For Cases Requiring Immediate Treatment, So Shouldst Thou Have Thy Thoughts Ready To Understand Things Divine And Human, Remembering In Thy Every Act, Even The Smallest, How Close Is The Bond That Unites The Two.

You Should Banish Any Thoughts Of How You May Appear To Others.

Direct Thy Attention To What Is Said. Let Thy Understanding Enter Into The Things That Are Doing And The Things Which Do Them.

Frequently Consider The Connection Of All Things In The Universe.

Nothing Happens To Any Man That He Is Not Formed By Nature To Bear.