...kind of knowledge is better than the philosophy of history, comparative philology and all that ? Yes ; he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city. The one thing needful is to know God so as to be able to walk with God. What will your prodigious attainments...

...himself while in California to be, under most extreme provocation, a man of marvellous selfcontrol. If he that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city then this man is both good and great. He was while here at all times habitually and many times malignantly...

...disregarding the rights of others. Self-restraint is a difficult virtue to practice. Solomon says that '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...

...disregarding the rights of others. Self-restraint is a difficult virtue to practice. Solomon says that '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...

...that helped to make him what he afterwards became — was his power of self-control. The Bible says, " He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Centuries of experience have confirmed the truth of the statement. No man is fit to command who is...

..."demon," and kept himself within control; and his later equanimity proves again the truth that " he who ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." His poem on " Peter Bell," " The Wagoner," and " Laodomia" (a beautiful tale of faithful wifehood from...

...been expecting anything of the kind, but I had somehow been led to choose for my text the words, " He that ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." I remember only two sentences: " Alexander conquered the world, but was himself conquered by his passions....

...the fact that war is a manifestation of the baser passion of human nature. True it is that " he who ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city," and yet war with all its horrors calls for the exercise of all that self-restraint, and all that strength...

...live with the determination that the nation's life shall be animated by the philosophy that "He who ruleth his own spirit is better than he that taketh a city." It is only when the positive force is supplemented by what might be called the negative force that...

...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...