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Power Quotes by William Wordsworth
- My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they…
- Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.
- Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:…
- Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become…
- Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
- I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can…
- How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
- I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To…
- Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.
- Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
- The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
- A power is passing from the earth.
- Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we…
- One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts we know How,…
- Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it…
- With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
- I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can…
- I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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