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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

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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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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Greatness Man Struggle

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