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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.


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HERODOTUS Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens
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BARON WESSENBERG Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.
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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Nothing external to you has any power over you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Nothing Can Make You Suffer, Without Your Silent Permission
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SOJOURNER TRUTH It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.
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JOSEPH PULITZER You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.
PATRICIA BRIGGS There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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ABHIJIT NASKAR The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date.
HALLE BERRY Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE This, this is misery! the last, the worst, That man can feel.
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