On the importance of weighing logic and emotions with equal practice…

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.