Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
EDMUND BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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