In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
EDMUND BURKEIt 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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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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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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