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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

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
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
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
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

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