And the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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John Steinbeck
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
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George Deacon
I have brought peace to this land, and security, " he began." And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single...
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Iain Pears
Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.
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Suzy Kassem
A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young?from EPITAPHS...
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Rudyard Kipling
More Quotes By Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters,...
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend...
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall. .. stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was...
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
