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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

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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

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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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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