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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Edmund Burke

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
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
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

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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