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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

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 essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
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
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
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
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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