Nearly all men

Nearly all men
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.
  

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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.
Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
The hardeststep is over the threshold.
You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.
Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.