A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.
Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.
A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.
There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.
We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!