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Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

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Edmund Burke

I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

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