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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Edmund Burke

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
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
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

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