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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.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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