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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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

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