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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
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
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social

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