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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – 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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Imagination
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Edmund Burke
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke

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Time
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature – and another woman to help him forget them. – Helen Rowland

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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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I think its a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, youll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before. – Cass Sunstein

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All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. – Sophocles

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