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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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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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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. – Albert Camus

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

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. – Elizabeth Bowen

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