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> [Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/reflect-upon-the-defects-of-your-character-thoroughly-realize-their/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

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## More by H. P. Blavatsky

> [We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/we-live-in-an-age-of-prejudice-dissimulation-and-paradox-wherein-like/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-more-thou-dost-advance-the-more-thy-feet-pitfalls-will-meet-the/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> ["True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/true-science-has-no-belief-says-dr-fenwick-in-bulwer-lytton-s-strange/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-idea-of-passing-one-s-whole-life-in-moral-idleness-and-having-one/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/to-act-and-act-wisely-when-the-time-for-action-comes-to-wait-and-wait/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/be-humble-if-thou-would-st-attain-to-wisdom-be-humbler-still-when/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/from-architecture-down-to-the-zodiac-every-science-worthy-of-the-name/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/endurance-is-the-free-companion-of-sorrow-and-patience-her-master/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/i-speak-with-absolute-certainty-only-so-far-as-my-own-personal-belief/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/nothing-of-that-which-is-conducive-to-help-man-collectively-or/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/patience-leads-to-power-but-eagerness-in-greed-leads-to-loss/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/whatever-plane-our-consciousness-may-be-acting-in-both-we-and-the/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/matter-is-spirit-at-its-lowest-level-spirit-is-matter-at-its-highest/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-mind-is-the-slayer-of-the-real-let-the-disciples-slay-the-slayer/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

> [The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-exercise-of-magical-power-is-the-exercise-of-natural-powers-but/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

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