"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
-Edmund Burke
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"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.“
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"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
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"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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