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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Edmund Burke

Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
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
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 greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success

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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