Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson. . . even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

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Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

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To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

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As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

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