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There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Edmund Burke

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
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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
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
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
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

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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