The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
~ William Shakespeare ~
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman ~
Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
~ Samuel Johnson ~
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.
~ D. H. Lawrence ~
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Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
~ Dante Alighieri ~
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
~ Anonymous ~
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
~ Joseph Addison ~
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
~ William Shakespeare ~
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
~ William Shakespeare ~
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
~ Jane Austen ~
If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
~ G. K. Chesterton ~
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
~ Joseph Addison ~
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~ Ovid ~
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Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
A good intention clothes itself with power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
A man's honor is not determined by power nor age, but by character and influence
~ Effi David ~
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It is only the wise that understands the power of the silent weapon.
~ Effi David ~
A man's honour is not determined by power nor age, but character and influence.
~ Effi David ~
Pride is one of the most common attributes of a man, but the most powerful to kill.
~ Effi David ~
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