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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Edmund Burke

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
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 crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
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 true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

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