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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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