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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

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
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

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