self commandの例文
- Emma Darwin was used to nursing, but was at her wit's end : " I have succeeded pretty well in teaching myself not to give way to despondency, [ but can ] only live from day to day . " She wrote another touching letter to Charles, saying the " only relief [ was to take ] affliction as from God's hand [ and ] try to believe that all suffering & illness is meant to help us to exalt our minds & look forward with hope to a future state . . . When I see your patience, deep compassion for others, self command & above all gratitude for the smallest thing done to help you I cannot help longing that these precious feelings should be offered to Heaven for the sake of your daily happiness . . . It is feeling & not reasoning that drives one to prayer . " Charles wrote " God Bless you " at the bottom of the note.
