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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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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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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

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The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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