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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
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
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success

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