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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. - Edmund

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. – Edmund Burke

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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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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 in. – Edmund Burke

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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke

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