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easily hearts men power ring
...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
magic power thoughts-and-thinking
The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
truth powerful moving
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance. The appearance of reality is necessary to make any passion agreeably represented, and to be able to move others we must be moved ourselves, or at least seem to be so, upon some probable grounds.
center melted politics power
In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
freedom power
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
answer feasible life origin power scientific
...Creative Power is the only feasible answer to the origin of life from a scientific perspective.
act aptitude chance choice cold courage fixed gift moral nature power resolve
Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is willpower.
assume attempting contempt critics-and-criticism figure manifest nor power shows subject understand wit
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
power years shade
Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
gratitude dog powerful
The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.
army power thinking
Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.
absolute-power absolutes
Absolute power demoralizes.
exercise men influence-and-power
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
country powerful generous-spirit
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.