Nothing astonishes

Nothing astonishes
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
  

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You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.
It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.
Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore
Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.