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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.

Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
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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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
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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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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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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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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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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