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

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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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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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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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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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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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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

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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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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

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