Lord Byron Quotes, Power Quotes, Comfort Quotes

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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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.

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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

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Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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Excessive fear is always powerless.

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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

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