Mark Twain Quotes, Power Quotes, Self Quotes

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

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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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Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

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

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Power is the first good.

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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

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

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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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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

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Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

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There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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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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The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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