To Bark or To Bite?

In the course of a single, 24-human-hour-period, I heard all of the following:

“Rivers are ceaseless,” “The sky is infinite,” “God is merciful,” and “Men die in the morning, and are born at night.”  I had to lay down and take a nap.

Should the Recruits be told to look upon their inner struggle with themselves as an “invasion,” a hostile, aggressive attack, or as a “liberation,” the helpful act of one friend to another?

When it comes to the actual protection of one’s temporary, revolutionary abode, is it more efficient to “tell” people to “stay away” (barking), or to literally “keep them away” (biting)?  (Much avoidable weariness arises from one’s apparent inability to make, and move on, this decision.)

Two thousand years ago I heard it said that, “Rarely does valor and wit reside in one man.”  Then a thousand years later ‘twas noted that, “You will not find honor and piety in the same soul.”  And after that I heard such notions as, “Never do beauty and intelligence dwell together,” and “Seldom can you discover within one person both virtue and courage.”  Now what I want to know is this:  With you humans, just what in hell DOES go together?

The Comparison of Views Regarding the Same Area From Differing Sources: 

“I believe that in the end the truth will endure,” taken from A Short History of the English People, versus, “I believe that in the end the tall will prevail,” from A History Of The Short English People.

J.