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Power Quotes by Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may…
- Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
- In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.
- The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the…
- As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it…
- A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition…
- ...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power...
- She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
- My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the…
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
- I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
- Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no…
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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo