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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
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.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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