"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."

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"Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

John Green, American Author

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"With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new."

Judd Rose, American Journalist

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"Thought is my strength and love is my power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."

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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

Time

"The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning."

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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."

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"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."

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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

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"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."

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"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

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"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

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