A large ocean liner

A large ocean liner
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
  

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Suspicion begets suspicion.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.
Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.
Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.
To exaggrerate is to weaken.