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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a...

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, fall, power

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Quote by John Adams about defects, confusion, ignorance, virtue, nature

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Quote by Joseph Addison about courage, duty, common sense, sense, man

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Quote by Joseph Addison about joy, conversation, friendship, self-control, happiness

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote...

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

Quote by Aeschylus about judgment, home, house, rightness

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Quote by Aristotel about democracy, respect, man

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that...

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about indifference, politics

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious...

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about love

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation...

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about conduct

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the...

Quote by James Payn about excess, difficulties, literary critic, writing, man, being

From all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's...

From all that dwell below the skies Let the Creator's praise arise; Let the Redeemer's name be sung Through every land, by every tongue.

Quote by Isaac Watts about god, praise, name

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Quote by Giacomo Girolamo Casanova De Seingalt about love, immortality, pleasure, real estate

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from...

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Quote by Pedro Calderón de la Barca about spring

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