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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
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
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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