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Quote 3644
The poets took them in hand from infancy, and made them the real and immortal things they are.Showing Quotes on power
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Quote 3573
A Cabinet is a combining committee.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3569
I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3568
I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3562
All arguments are ended.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3559
The sword of judgment.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3556
All tyrannies must go together.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3554
What in the name of God is this?by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3541
We must, therefore, take care not to allow the Spartans to attain a formidable degree of strength.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3540
There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3537
You have a thousand cavalry, and infantry as many as any one can desire, and three hundred ships.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3463
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3462
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3446
The Cabinet is an absolutely secret committee, which can dissolve the assembly which appointed it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3445
The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3444
The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3443
The efficient parts only employ that power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3442
The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force - which attract its motive power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3422
It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3418
Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3402
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3348
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3232
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.Showing Quotes on power
Quote 3225
A great empire and little minds go ill together.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3224
The use of force alone is but temporary.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3222
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on power
Quote 3220
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.Showing Quotes on power
Quote 3199
Liberty is power.Showing Quotes on power
Quote 3127
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 3085
Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husbandShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 3060
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.Showing Quotes on power
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Quote 3004
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinkingby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on power
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creationby: John LockeShowing Quotes on power
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Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it backby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2747
Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himselfby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2675
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becomingShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2649
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.Showing Quotes on power
Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2597
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selectionShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2535
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.Showing Quotes on power
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Quote 2479
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few handsShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2463
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new powerShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2439
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.Showing Quotes on power
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Quote 2419
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitledby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on power
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairsby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on power
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And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every departmentby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2379
There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of othersShowing Quotes on power
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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person lessShowing Quotes on power
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Love is energy of life.by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2284
In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2273
I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2267
He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weakby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on power
Quote 2245
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not freeShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2239
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.Showing Quotes on power
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Quote 2221
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry upShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2032
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the worldby: ArchimedesShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2031
When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common lifeShowing Quotes on power
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defenseby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 2003
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven.by: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1951
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1926
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable loveShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1897
The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken placesShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1856
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peaceShowing Quotes on power
Quote 1768
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on power
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To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would denyby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on power
Quote 1720
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the worldShowing Quotes on power
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathiesShowing Quotes on power
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of factsShowing Quotes on power
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.Showing Quotes on power
Quote 1696
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they couldShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1664
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.Showing Quotes on power
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happinessby: AristotleShowing Quotes on power
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulersby: AristotleShowing Quotes on power
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Showing Quotes on power
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Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clingsby: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on power
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Love takes up where knowledge leaves offby: Thomas AquinasShowing Quotes on power
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever endShowing Quotes on power
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Quote 1363
There is a woman at the begining of all great thingsShowing Quotes on power
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.by: Ferdinand FochShowing Quotes on power
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.Showing Quotes on power
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leaderby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on power
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.by: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on power
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If there is no struggle, there is no progressShowing Quotes on power
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summerby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on power
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strongShowing Quotes on power
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to doby: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on power
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural onesShowing Quotes on power
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do itShowing Quotes on power
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of natureShowing Quotes on power
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.by: Edward EverettShowing Quotes on power
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for powerShowing Quotes on power
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Character is powerShowing Quotes on power
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him powerby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on power
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happensby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on power
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Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on power
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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.by: Honore de BalzacShowing Quotes on power
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!Showing Quotes on power
Quote 1065
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the peopleShowing Quotes on power
Quote 1064
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obeyby: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on power
Quote 1063
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign powerby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on power
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