One ofthe lessons

One ofthe lessons
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.
A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.
No one is free who does not Lord over himself.
Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
He whoangers you, conquers you.
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Genius is a long impatience.
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.