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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
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
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
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth

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