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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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

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