 ... what we really are. But then, as the world offers more trials on the one hand, so on the other it holds out more duties. If we are called to battle oftener, we have more opportunities of victory.  The Works of Hannah More - Page 252by Hannah More - 1836Full view - About this book
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pages
...teaches us to govern ourselves. Hazlitt: Those who can command themselves command others. Laws of Life: He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city. Seneca: Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. SELF-DENIAL The denial of one's self, forbearing... | |
 | Emma Curtis Hopkins - 2007 - 381 pages
...discloses authority with the particularly present divine Self, or Spirit of God vivifying each frame. "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city," wrote Solomon the discoverer of spiritual activities. This individually present Godship is that Self... | |
 | Merritt Way Haynes - 1924 - 256 pages
...weaknesses and peculiarities, as we have already mentioned. In all situations, no matter how exasperating, " He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." The teacher should always respect the feelings of. his students and in dealing with them should always... | |
 | 1854 - 406 pages
...blessed thing to cherish the hope of growing to such perfect stature. It wu the wise man who said, " He that ruleth his own spirit, is better than he that taketh a city." Aside from the pleasure of living in a pure atmosphere, there is another reason why the cultivation... | |
 | 1881 - 788 pages
...SELF-CONTROL. — To this quality, even more than to his genius, he probably owed his success in life. " Ee that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city," and the life of such a man is a record of truer and nobler conquest than that of an Alexander or a... | |
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