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| The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. |
Edmund Burke |
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| History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. |
Edmund Burke |
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| An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. |
Edmund Burke |
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| We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Ambition can creep as well as soar. |
Edmund Burke |
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| No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. |
Edmund Burke |
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| I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Never despair but if you do, work on in despair. |
Edmund Burke |
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| All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. |
Edmund Burke |
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| It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. |
Edmund Burke |
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| The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. |
Edmund Burke |
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| Fall seven times, stand up eight. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| We are no more than candles burning in the wind. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| If you believe everything you read, better not read. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| One kind word can warm three winter months. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| After victory, tighten your helmet chord. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| The reverse side also has a reverse side. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| The crow that mimics a cormorant is drowned. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| The nail that sticks out is hammered down. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| The go-between wears out a thousand sandals. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| Don't stay long when the husband is not at home. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons. |
Wilfred Owen |
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| If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet. |
Theodore White |
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| That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Every man has two countries his own and France. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Delay is preferable to error. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| No more good must be attempted than the people can bear. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| One man with courage is a majority. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| ...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| Information is the currency of democracy. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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| How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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