Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
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Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a h...
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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting ...
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Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to rig...
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The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.
