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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"


That man is to be accounted poor, of whatever rank he be, and suffers
the pains of poverty, whose expenses exceed his resources; and no man
is, properly speaking, poor, but he.--PALEY.
That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly
true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than
from eating too little.--CHANNING.
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones
there are to assist in supporting it.--RICHTER.

POWER.--Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest
heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with
unlimited power.--COLTON.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall.--BACON.
Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.
--NAPOLEON.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.--J. PETIT-SENN.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel
them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the
governed.--PUBLIUS SYRUS.
It is an observation no less just than common, that there is no
stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority,
exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent
vice.--PLUTARCH.

PRAISE.--Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a
child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious
praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.--BOVEE.


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