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The supremacy of the mind over these cannot be overlooked, for the brothers mastered both emotions and pains.
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How then can one fail to confess the sovereignty of right reason over emotion in those who were not turned back by fiery agonies?
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For just as towers jutting out over harbors hold back the threatening waves and make it calm for those who sail into the inner basin,
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so the seven-towered right reason of the youths, by fortifying the harbor of religion, conquered the tempest of the emotions.
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For they constituted a holy chorus of religion and encouraged one another, saying,
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