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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

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
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
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
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
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
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
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
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself

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