Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKEBut 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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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