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Edmund Burke

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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification

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