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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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 make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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Turn over a new leaf.
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Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True

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