It is a lesson

It is a lesson
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
  

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There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.
Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.
Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.
Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.