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

Edmund Burke

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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
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
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
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
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
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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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Build Prudence Rage Time
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife

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