 | James Russell Miller - Consolation - 1901 - 314 pages
...merely when we have great forces of energy, but when we can command these forces at will. " He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." There is much of bad temper even among Christian people. Many are quick to speak, flying into a passion... | |
 | Henry Wood - New Thought - 1901 - 312 pages
...as manly and honorable when compared with brute force ; let them remind their pupils that " he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." Let fathers seek to guide that youthful exuberance in their sons, which finds expression in militarism,... | |
 | Robert Hall Babcock - Arteries - 1903 - 906 pages
...themselves well in hand. Verily, all cardiopaths should bear in mind that Bible utterance, " He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." Sex. — Mitral disease, and in particular mitral stenosis, is more frequent in the fair sex, while... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Europe - 1904 - 416 pages
...exhibit self-restraint and moral courage in dealing with the problems of government. It is written that he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. It is too much to expect that all things will be done as anyone would like to have them done or that... | |
 | New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb - Deaf - 1904 - 788 pages
...trinmph, on to Italy and victory. Just so we must learn to have the victory over ourselves. He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. And this conquest of self involves clean thinking and pure desires. The greatest of all battlefields... | |
 | New York (State) School for the deaf, White Plains - 1904 - 946 pages
...triumph, on to Italy and victory. Just so we must learn to have the victory over ourselves. He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. And this conquest of self involves clean thinking and pure desires. The greatest of all battlefields... | |
 | Willis George Emerson - Building - 1906 - 376 pages
...came close to him, almost leaned against his shoulder and said softly to him : " Remember, ' he that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.' " " I will try to remember," said Fred, hoarsely, as he pushed her gently back and stepped further... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 444 pages
...for the right in the presence of ridicule and abuse. We have the Bible authority for the statement that "he who ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city." What is the value of a human life? Who will measure the world's loss by the death of those who have... | |
 | Carry Amelia Nation - NATION, CARRY A. - 1908 - 426 pages
...in my heart, they would not wonder at my courage in smashing the murdershops of our land. "He that ruleth his own spirit, is greater than he that taketh a city." (Prov. 16:32.) In 1855, we moved to Missouri, just a year before the trouble broke out between Kansas and... | |
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He that ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. 
