So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right read more

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),

Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will read more

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere read more

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]