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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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
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
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression

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