 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1909 - 222 pages
...and he might well regard it as a triumph; but Dr. Spofford 's real triumph was yet to come, for as "he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city" so now he was called upon to perform a great act of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty. That he accomplished... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1884 - 906 pages
...Empire " ; for while victorious in war, he remained a conquered captive to the inlluences of opium. "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." Wilson's Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. Edinburgh : James Gemmell. THE people who dwell on... | |
 | Mormons - 1909 - 1078 pages
...than Waterloo! Thou man, at peace with the world, hast thou no enemies? Spake he not well who said, "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city?" Man drags his cannon over the ruins of their making, and sits conqueror in the smoke of their destruction.... | |
 | Health education - 1930 - 618 pages
...AT THE BALTIMORE INDOOR CARNIVAL agree that "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." But it is one thing to treasure this proverb in the archives of memory; it is quite another to practice... | |
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He that ruleth his spirit, is better than he that taketh a city, 
