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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Himself Mistake
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself

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