The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKESuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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