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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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.
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.
Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.
Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.
The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Constantrepetition carries conviction.
Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.
A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing