Robert Frost Quotes, Power Quotes, Icy Quotes

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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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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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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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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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

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Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

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Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

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

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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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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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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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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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

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

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

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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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