Famous quotes containing the word powers:
“Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)
“If powers divine
Behold our human actionsas they do
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have ... I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
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