Where power is absent we may ...

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.
 Walter Savage Landor

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
 Benjamin McKenzie
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
 Walter Savage Landor
Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.
 Walter Savage Landor
Hope is the mother of faith.
 Walter Savage Landor
Children are what the mothers are.
 Walter Savage Landor
We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
 Walter Savage Landor