"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

Power, Ambition, Fame, Grave

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"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill, English Philosopher

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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;--obey!"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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"Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!"

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"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

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"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."

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"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

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"Consult duty not events."

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"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it."

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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."

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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."

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"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."

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