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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Edmund Burke

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKE

Caution Wisdom
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
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
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
EDMUND BURKE

Difficult Impossible Silence Talk

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