Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Love Quotes, Power Quotes

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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

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

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You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.

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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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