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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke

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
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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