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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.

Edmund Burke

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
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle

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