By the all-powerful will of God. [ Motto ]
The present moment is a powerful deity. [ Goethe ]
Even weak men when united are powerful. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]
Laws are powerful, necessity still more so. [ Goethe ]
How peaceful and how powerful is the grave! [ Byron ]
Two powerful destroyers: Time and Adversity. [ A. de Musset ]
If knowledge is power, patience is powerful. [ Robert Hall ]
See what money can do: that can change
Men's manners; alter their conditions!
How tempestuous the slaves are without it!
O thou powerful metal! what authority
Is in thee! thou art the key to all mens
Mouths: with thee, a man may lock up the jaws
Of an informer; and without thee, he
Cannot open the lips of a lawyer. [ Richard Brome ]
The poor trying to imitate the powerful, perish. [ Phaedrus ]
Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains.
Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;
These first induce him the vile trash to try,
Then lend his name that other men may buy. [ Crabbe ]
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power. [ Seneca ]
A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt. [ Huxley ]
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. [ F. W. Newman ]
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm. [ Burke ]
The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange. [ Danish Webster ]
Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness. [ Michelet ]
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. [ Schiller ]
Men are more eloquent than women made; but women are more powerful to persuade. [ Thomas Randolph ]
Weak souls are capable of only weak sentiments; strong souls of powerful sentiments. [ Balzac ]
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. [ Seneca ]
There is a power a hundred times more powerful than that of bayonets: it is the power of ideas. [ Chevalier ]
Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth. [ I. I. Kozlof ]
It is a powerful sex; they were too strong for the first, the strongest, and the wisest man that was. [ Howell ]
The devil must be very powerful, since the sacrifice of a god for men has not rendered them any better. [ Piron ]
We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. [ Jean Paul ]
Men have made of Fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order to be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Nations, like individuals, are powerful in the degree that they command the sympathies of their neighbors. [ Bovee ]
The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, - over every idea. [ Latin Proverb ]
Chance is always powerful; let your hook always be cast. In a pool where you least expect it there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises. [ La Bruyere ]
Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunders. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. [ Hume ]
Reason developed and cultivated will always be the most powerful curb to the passions: this is the compass of all mankind. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. [ Goldsmith ]
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. [ Washington Gladden ]
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we and in fiction. [ J. G. Holland ]
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]
Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. [ Goldsmith ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. [ Lord Bacon ]
The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue. [ Moliere ]
Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]
Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands. [ John Ruskin ]
There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]
The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action. [ Macaulay ]
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]
O mothers! reflect upon the power that your Maker has placed in your hands; there is no earthly influence to be compared with yours; there is no combination of causes so powerful in promoting the happiness or misery of our race, as the instructions of home! [ J. S. C. Abbott ]
Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs. [ Carlyle ]
The press is not only free; it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people. [ Beaconsfield ]
Much that is published as a novel is only anonymous biography. Many a man who is a bore in conversation may have qualities which give indescribable charms to narrative; and the egotist, if he only have the art to conceal his identity, can then hold the reader by the powerful grasp of sympathy. [ R. S. Mackenzie ]
Music has certainly a powerful influence on the passions, and produces happy effects upon the human heart and mind when cultivated moderately; but when it becomes the general prevailing passion of a nation, or, as it were, gets dominion over them, it unquestionably produces not effeminacy merely, but a hateful depravity of manners. [ S. F. Bradford ]
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; the passions are powerful pleaders, and their very silence, like that of Garrick, goes directly to the soul, but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures. [ Colton ]
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]