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Quote by Joseph Addison
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or domini

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. – Joseph Addison

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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. – Dan Brown

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. – Voltaire

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

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The party in power, like Jonahs gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. – Davy Crockett

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. – Blaise Pascal

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I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883

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Let there be a small country with few people . . .
Though neighboring communities overlook one another and the crowing of cocks and barking of dogs can be heard,
Yet the people there may grow old and die without ever visiting one another. – Lao-Tzu

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