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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
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 first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice

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