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• Quote 3127

  Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3085

  Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband

  by: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

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• Quote 3060

  The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.

  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 3004

  One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2938

  The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2753

  Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back

  by: Thomas a Kempis

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• Quote 2747

  Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself

  by: Thomas a Kempis

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• Quote 2675

  There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming

  by: Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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• Quote 2649

  Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

  by: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

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• Quote 2600

  It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2597

  In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection

  by: Charles Robert Darwin

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• Quote 2535

  Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  by: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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• Quote 2481

  The world is governed by opinion

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2479

  One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2463

  Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2439

  No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2419

  The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2410

  Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2407

  And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department

  by: Andrew Carnegie

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• Quote 2379

  There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2362

  A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less

  by: Jean de La Bruyère

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• Quote 2314

  Love is energy of life.

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2284

  In the first is the last, in thy will is my power to believe

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2273

  I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2267

  He who did most, shall bear most; the strongest shall stand the most weak

  by: Robert Browning

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