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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
View quotes by Jane Austen

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
View quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
View quotes by Sydney Harris

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
View quotes by Henry Miller

Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil
View quotes by David Ricardo

It is the tension between the scientist's laws and his own attempted breaches of them that powers the engines of science and makes it forge ahead. (Quiddities)
View quotes by W V O Quine

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
View quotes by Quintilian

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
View quotes by Matthew Arnold

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
View quotes by Edmund Burke

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavour to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
View quotes by John Dewey

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
View quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
View quotes by James Thurber

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
View quotes by Isaac Singer

Even so, one step from my grave,
I believe that cruelty, spite,
The powers of darkness will in time,
Be crushed by the spirit of light.
View quotes by Boris Pasternak

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
View quotes by Emo Philips

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
View quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
View quotes by John Gardner

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe



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