 ... 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
 | Andrew Van Vranken Raymond - 1907 - 600 pages
...of the fashionable or ambitious. It must have pondered well and wisely that saying of the wise man, 'he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' It must know how to poise itself on its own convictions of truth and duty, and stand undismayed, though... | |
 | Charles Edward Locke - 1914 - 320 pages
...tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things. — In Memoriam. He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city. — Proverbs. CHAPTER X SELF-MASTERY JESUS CHRIST, the Great Exemplar, is himself the living embodiment... | |
 | Netta Syrett - 1915 - 428 pages
...rest," she avowed magnanimously. "Come and kiss me, my dear, and in your prayers to-night remember that 'he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " She enveloped Rose in the embrace known to Minerva House as the "bear's hug" without which no "row"... | |
 | 1916 - 902 pages
...established in strength in the relations they must bear to the affairs of the world of which they are a part. "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx X Retirement of Superannuated x Government Employees... | |
 | 1917 - 204 pages
...light and does the right " is always greater than the man who thinks and plans for personal success. " He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Facts are dead; truth lives and is personal; worth reveals the complete person, the perfect model.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Maurice Alpheus Bigelow, Jean Broadhurst - 1924 - 264 pages
...with our sleep. It is not always easy to control our temper. That is the reason why the Bible says: "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." We ought to keep as cheerful and calm as we can ourselves, and help other people to be happy and cheerful.... | |
 | David Fraser Fraser-Harris - 1928 - 288 pages
...He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls ; but he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city ". And, lastly, Science reveals to us beauty ; just as religion teaches us the beauty of holiness,... | |
 | Louise Brightman Brownell - 1928 - 264 pages
...individual right to life, freedom and happiness, the heritage of the children of God. STEPS TO MASTERY "He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." are many steps to mastery, but we can rise only one step at a time. If one sets out to obtain selfmastery... | |
 | Ralph Dietl - 1996 - 500 pages
...amerikanische Volk sich auch in Zukunft an Salomon halten oder aber alte Positionen aufgeben würde. Denn, '"he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city.'" The American people have shown that they can take a city; will they be able to restrain the spirit... | |
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