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

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

Other quotes by William Wordsworth

Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. – William Wordsworth

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Future
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William Wordsworth
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For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good. – William Wordsworth

Category:
Defeat
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William Wordsworth
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Other Quotes from
power
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. – Winston Churchill

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power

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. – Black Elk

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power

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didnt even know existed. – Ricky Martin

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power

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. – Thomas Huxley

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power

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Silence is medication for sorrow. – Arab Proverb

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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now thats a real treat. – Joanne Woodward

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Beauty

When political and business leaders tell the public – any public – We dont trust you to make the right decision – they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves. – Preston Manning

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Trust