You see, without self-mastery, it is difficult to be self-giving.

你看，没有自我的约束要自我付出的话是非常不容易的。

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Don't mistake your need for self-mastery and control for your obvious ability to control others.

不要把你对于自我掌控的需要误当作你明显控制他人的能力。

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Begin at once a program of self-mastery. But start modestly, with the little things that bother you.

立即开始自我掌握的课程，但要谨慎地从困扰你的小事情开始。

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Morgan Freeman brings a sublime dignity and self-mastery to the role of Mandela.

NEWYORKER: Invictus

And Joey, in his precocious self-mastery, seldom found it necessary to be mean to her in front of his friends indeed, he may have figured that to have an actual groupie could only reinforce his social primacy.

NEWYORKER: Good Neighbors

The twenties, possibly alone among the middle decades of life, are passionately celebrated in fiction and memoirs, and the celebrations tend to share a style that is personal, specific, cliquish, pastiched, breathless, often bibulous, and flagrantly confessional the voice of early mastery without mature constraint, self-discovery at a moment when each revelation seems unique.

NEWYORKER: Semi-Charmed Life