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

Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
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
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
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
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
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success

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