"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."

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"The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing."

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"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

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"The destiny of man is in his own soul."

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