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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

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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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UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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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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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

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Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

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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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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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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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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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Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

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