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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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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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The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized.

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Great men are never cruel without necessity.

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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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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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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

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

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

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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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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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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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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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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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.

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