If absolute power

If absolute power
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?
  

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Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits
It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.
Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.