<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Had I The Power</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the power to know and see<br>The good points and the bad in me<br>A philosopher I would be instead<br>Of one who walks around half dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the power to understand<br>And give others a helping hand<br>And overlook their faults to find<br>That they too can be good and kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the power to spurn hate<br>to not scorn or discriminate<br>And have no badness in my heart<br>Then I would be a man apart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Outward a person may seem nice<br>But that doesn't mean he's free of vice<br>Because he behaves well doesn't mean<br>That inward he is spotless clean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no human truly perfect<br>In each of us there's some defect<br>We merely flatter to deceive<br>Perfection we cannot achieve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the power to show my true inside<br>And not be keeping meaner traits ahide<br>And show the badness in me with the good<br>There's no use trying because I never could.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=554692" data-title="Had I The Power de Francis Duggan" data-description="Had I the power to know and see The good points and the bad in me A philosopher I would be instead Of one who walks around half dead. Had I the power to understand And give others a helping hand And overlook their faults to find That they too can..."></div> </div> </div>

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