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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
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
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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