To rule is not

To rule is not
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
  

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We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
All bravery stands upon comparisons.
Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends
Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.
If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.