Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet quotes
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“Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.”
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“Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?”
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“There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.”
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“Man should be ever better than he seems.”
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Source : "Lightning Fast Enlightenment: A Journey to the Secrets of Happiness". Book by Jordan S. Metzger, p. 9, 2000.
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“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
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Source : The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)
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“You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
Source : "A Democracy of Despots" by Donald Murray, (p. 8), 1995.
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“Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.”
Source : Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”
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Source : "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.