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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
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

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