Quotes about potency (16 Quotes)



    Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

    How the horse dominated the mind of the early races, especially of the Mediterranean You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.... The horse, the horse The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.


    Unfortunately an apology, no matter how heartfelt, just doesn't carry enough potency in a situation like this to bring any real comfort or amend any of the wrong. I understand completely that certain actions have certain consequences. . . . But after considering my case, perhaps there might be a clear basis for striving to seek a merciful course within the bounds of justice.



    Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life, and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms, each atom with a positive and a negative pole, arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought, they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers, because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.



    If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.



    Even if the son of his enemy speaks sweetly, The wise man remains on guard. A poisonous leaf retains its potency, And can cause injury at any time.

    LINDBERGH FLIES ALONE Alone Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given.





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