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

Edmund Burke

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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
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
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
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat

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