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“Power is the combined will of the masses, transferred by their expressed or tacit consent, to the rulers chosen by the masses.”

“Just as the sun and every atom of ether is a sphere complete in itself, and at the same time is only a part of a whole inconceivable to man through its vastness, so every individuality bears within its own ends and yet bears them so as to serve general ends unfathomable by man.”

“To the flunkey no man can be great, because the flunkey has his own flunkey conception of greatness.”

“She knew it not, and would not have believed it yet though the layer of mould under which she fancied that her soul was buried seemed unbroken, the delicate, tender young blades of grass were already pushing through it, and were destined to take root, and so to hide the grief that had crushed her under their living shoots that it would soon be unseen and forgotten. The wound was healing from within.”