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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
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
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
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
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory

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