A Quote by Lord Acton
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.
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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
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The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment.
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