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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time

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