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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.

Edmund Burke

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
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
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
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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
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
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power

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