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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

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

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

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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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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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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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