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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking

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