A nation reveals

A nation reveals
A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.
  

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A room without books is a body without soul
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.
Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.