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"The law always limits every power it gives."
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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"
"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."
"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
"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."
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"A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker."
"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."
"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."
"Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding."
"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue."
"This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society."
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