Far better to think

Far better to think
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
  

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Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.
Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.
One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.
To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.
Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.
We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.
It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen