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“Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.”

Wish Power Praiseworthy

Author:Ovid

“There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.”

Ifs Persons Wish Power Degrees Available Drawing Decent Latin Arithmetic

Book:The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

Source: The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

“Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]”

Wish Power Posse

Author:Juvenal

“I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am content, and have a feeling of trust and safety. The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all--in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and morals.”

Mind Feelings Christian Purpose Courses Belief Wish Simple Money Moral Power Standards Conscience Safety Orthodox Division Merchants Dichotomy Simple Faith

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.”

Children Hands Father Wish Water Money Power Republican Woods Corporations Revolutionary Drawers Aristocratic Money Power

Author:Andrew Jackson

“I am master of myself as of the universe, so I am; so I wish to be.”

Universe Wish Power Masters Magnanimity Clemency

Author:Pierre Corneille

“Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.”

Desire Suffering Wish Power Mere Extremes Vain Insecurity Arrogant Insomnia Ruthless Mammals

Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian