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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

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
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
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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