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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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 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.
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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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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
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

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