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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife

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