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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

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat

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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