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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By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
The greatest prayer is patience.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.
It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.
Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character