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

Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True

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

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