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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake

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