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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
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
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity

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