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- The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
- Johnson
- There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
- C. C. Colton
- Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
- James Goldsmith
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Pittacus
- The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
- C. C. Colton
- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
- There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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