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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

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
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
Turn over a new leaf.
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Let Go One Liner Start
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash

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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