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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

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