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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Edmund Burke

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
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

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