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The incentive to ambition is the love of power. - William Hazlitt

The incentive to ambition is the love of power. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Curmudgeonesque
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William Hazlitt
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Beauty
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William Hazlitt
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power
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Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. – Bryant H. McGill

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power

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

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power

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. – Cornelius Nepos

Category:
power

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system. – Oskar Schindler

Category:
power

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There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration. – Walter Russell

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Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words climate change in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. – Jeff Goodell

Category:
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