Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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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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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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