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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Edmund Burke

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
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
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
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

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