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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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