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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

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
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
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
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety

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