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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Edmund Burke

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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