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

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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

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