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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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 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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
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
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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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