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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
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
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right

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