"Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control."
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"Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity."
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"Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first."
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"A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success."
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"There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself."
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"Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active."
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"Power educates the potentate."
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"Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight."
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"He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power."
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"There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power."
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"A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection."
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"You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance."
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"The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction."
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"We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven."
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"Wherever there is power there is age."
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"Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!"
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"Power is the first good."
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"All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength."
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"The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted."
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"The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life."
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