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Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough,
I can single handed move the read more
Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough,
I can single handed move the world.
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you read more
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.
There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
The law has no power over heroes.
The law has no power over heroes.
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things read more
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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),