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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom

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