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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small

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