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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edmund Burke

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

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