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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
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 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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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