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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. - William Wordswort

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. – William Wordsworth

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Business
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William Wordsworth
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. – William Wordsworth

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Life
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. – Sitting Bull

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. – Charles de Gaulle

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. – Andrew Young

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The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. – Welsh Proverb

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I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. – William Blake

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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it. – Proverb

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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing – Joey Adams

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