"The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts."

Power, Prudence, Tenderness

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

Power, Obedience

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Power, Fantasy, President, Want

"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."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Power, Weakness, Resistance, Control

"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."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."

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"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."

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"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

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"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."

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"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."

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"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."

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"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later."

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"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."

"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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"If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil."

"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."

"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

"A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart."

"Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it."

"When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

"I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species."

"The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love."

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later."