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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
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
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Sin Yourself

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

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