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power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak. Charles Caleb Colton
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ. Charles Spurgeon
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful. Charles Spurgeon
law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. Charles Caleb Colton
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit. Charles Caleb Colton
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed. Charles Caleb Colton
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. Charles Caleb Colton
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope. Charles Dickens
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
enmity hostility means power reign satan state
Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us. Ezra Taft Benson
enmity should immortal
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. Livy
enmity glory tyranny
I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny. John Hancock
enmity conflict
You are at enmity with yourself. Jakob Bohme
enmity fundamentals enterprise
The New Deals enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental. Garet Garrett
enmity today emotion
Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing. Joseph Joubert
enmity muhammad nations
I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. Howard Cosell
enmity world saws
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink. John Gardner
enmity helping daily-life
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. Rainer Maria Rilke