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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. - Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. – Edmund Burke

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – 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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The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable. – Thomas Fuller

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The weakest spot in any person is where they think themselves to be the wisest. – G. Emmons

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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss. – Thomas Kempis

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