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Learn to direct men and patiently to hear them, winding in and out of their counsels, keeping thyself always wiser than they. Well, I studied, and learned, and can command a ship or ships, and know navigation, and can make maps and charts with the best, and can rule seamen, loving them the while. Long ago, I went to that school which He set, and came forth magister!

Wise was Rome in canonising these, wiser than the Reformation that persecuted Böhme, but the spirit of the Reformation was ever intensely anti-mystical, and wherever its breath hath passed the fair flowers of mysticism have withered as under the sirocco.

Your sister loves me, and I love her, that's enough. I am satisfied, and there that's enough. The whole thing is a family secret, and who is going to be the wiser. I only hope they have dug the fellow's grave deep enough, that's all." "But, Fuller, have you reflected?" "Reflected! I've done nothing else for a week, and this is just what it has brought me to. So give us your hand."

An old Dutch lady, after listening very attentively to a young Irishwoman's account of the grandeur of her father's family at home, said rather drily to the self-exalted damsel, "Goodness me, child! if you were so well off, what brought you to a poor country like this? I am sure you had been much wiser had you staid to hum " "Yes.

"You'll be wiser to stay where you are, Master Dick," said Mark. "No one believes that you're a gentleman's son, and if they did I'm very sure it would make very little difference. I should, perhaps, benefit by your getting about, as you would have all the dirty work to do which now falls to my lot.

And it suited his pride to think of a new kingdom broader of domain, richer in power, and of a more unapproachable splendor than the old one; of a new king wiser and mightier than Solomon a new king under whom, especially, he could find both service and revenge. In that mood he resumed to the dowar.

"I I don't think so," she breathed. "Don't you? Well, I like you the better for saying so. I can picture myself putting the same questions to one of the Wragg girls to both of 'em, in fact. I am older than you, and very much wiser in some of the world's ways, and my advice is, Don't marry any man unless you are sure you love him. If you do love him, you may keep him, for men are patient creatures.

He did not stay long, and when he was going he said that it would have been wiser never to have come: it was a selfish impulse brought him he wanted to see her. Julia laughed at his simple confession; her sister Helen was rather angry. "Now, I suppose you will be all unsettled again, Julia," said she, though Julia had just then a most peaceful face.

"The captain is the captain, and while you are on board his ship you'd better not rub against him, but listen to what he tells you to do, and do it; sharp's the word with him." I was not much the wiser from this information, but I gathered from it that Captain Hake was a man who would stand no nonsense. I determined at all events to learn my duty, and to try and perform it to the best of my power.

As Madison knew and said, the real danger was that the States would divide into two confederacies, and only by a new and wiser and stronger union could that calamity be averted. To gain the assent of most of the States to a convention was surmounting only the least of the difficulties.