When you are tempted to make things more comfortable, more interesting,
more exciting by exaggeration--Don't.
When you are tempted to escape by a lie the consequences of what you
have said or done--_Don't_.
When you are tempted to let envy or jealousy find expression in words or
acts of meanness and unkindness--_Don't_.
When you are tempted to repeat a story or say a daring thing you would
not say in the presence of the one whose respect you desire--_Don't_.
When you are tired of the struggle to be true and do right, tired of the
effort to seek always the best things and are tempted to give
up--_Don't_.
When you are tempted to repay injustice with revenge, unkindness with
cruelty, jealousy with malice, to do to others as they do to
you--_Don't_.
Learn the power of control, of _restraint_ and though it be only the
negative side of religion, it will help to make you strong.
When the instructor in religion opens his eyes and sees the peril which
lies in wait for the girl wage earner, the society girl and even the
schoolgirl, what he is forced to see makes him say with a passionate cry
from his soul, as he thinks of the individual girls whom he knows and
loves, "_Thou shall not_."
XIV
THOU SHALT
A thought which slumbers in the mind has within it the germ of life.
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