Assume a virtue if you have it not

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Hamlet's 'Assume a virtue, if you have it not' (Act 3, scene 4) as the technique in one line: assume the quality or state one lacks, the feeling of the wish fulfilled, and it becomes one's own.

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William Shakespeare, Hamlet | Assume a virtue if you have it not

Shakespeare, Hamlet | Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Refrain tonight; and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence: the next more easy; for use can almost change the stamp of nature

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God Plays All the Parts ¶27

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God Has a Purpose ¶51

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Feel Deeply ¶16

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Pre-Existence ¶17

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Tloa Lecturethe Way ¶6

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Christmas, The Redeeming Message ¶41

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Binding and Loosing ¶29

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Binding and Loosing ¶36

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Binding and Loosing ¶12

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Binding and Loosing ¶13

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He allowed her to select the virtue that she would like to assume, which currently she did not possess; and told her if tonight you would refrain the impulse to fall asleep in your last night’s concept

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Binding and Loosing ¶12

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Restrain what?—-the impulse to sleep in the consciousness of being thwarted, of being the man that you don’t want to be. And, just this one night restrain the impulse to fall asleep in that state.

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Radio 3 Answered Prayer ¶23

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