 | International Order of Good Templars - 1874 - 76 pages
...Ennobled you come, having kept your vows, for self-conquest is the noblest victory achieved on earth. "He who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." But remember one truth more, and let it sink into your hearts, and influence you while you live —... | |
 | Frank Warren Hackett - 1879 - 190 pages
...remedy in peaceful submission to authority, — the crowning glory of the Revolution was consummated. As "he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," so was the adoption of the Federal Constitution a greater event than the renowned Declaration of Rights,... | |
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...acknowledges the artistic hand of the Supreme Ruler. Who would rule wisely must first govern himself. "He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." JL Robisoii. The earnest men are so few in the world that their very earnestness becomes at once the... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1881 - 402 pages
...circumstances of the actors in such a drama and his own. But give him such a theme as — '" He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." Illustrate and explain the theme properly, and you make a great step in expanding his reasoning powers,... | |
 | Amanda Minnie Douglas - 1883 - 286 pages
...yourself ? This is the chief thing the Captain asks of us voluntary soldiers ; and did not a wise man say that ' he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city ' ? " " There is more in volunteering than I thought," Eob said, gravely, after a long pause ; " I am afraid, after... | |
 | 1883 - 304 pages
...yourselves, and therein and thereafter you will realize there is something in the truth of the declaration that " He who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." However, there are combats and conflicts which are honorable in the profession — the discussion of... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - 1883 - 408 pages
...him for a very different position, he is " content to fill a little place ; '' and on the principle that " he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," we cannot but admire him as one of nature's heroes. THE SLEEP OF THE HEAVY BRIGADE. A parody, composed... | |
 | Scottish poets - 1883 - 402 pages
...him for a very different position, he is " content to fill a little place ;'" and on the principle that " he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city," we cannot but admire him as one of nature's heroes. THE SLEEP OP THE HEAVY BRIGADE. A parody, composed... | |
 | International Order of Good Templars. U.S. National Grand Lodge - 1884 - 72 pages
...Ennobled you come, having kept your vows, for self-conquest is the noblest victory achieved on earth. "He who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city." But remember one truth more, and let it sink into your hearts, and influence you while you live —... | |
 | Emma Dorothy E. Nevitte Southworth - 1885 - 402 pages
...No, no, Ferdinand, you will not, you must not. You will listen to me, and govern yourself. Remember that ' he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he who taketh a city.' Anger is insensate, irrational. To yield to it is unworthy of a man ; keep your own soul in peace ;... | |
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