Quote by Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, o

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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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel

The dullards envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. – Max Beerbohm

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