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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Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.
He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.
The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.
Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Prayrer changes things by changing people.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.
Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.