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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle

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