“My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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(3) You fill your own mind with evil thoughts instead of good; and so you hinder your own growth, and make yourself, for those who can see, an ugly and painful object instead of a beautiful and lovable one.
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