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

Edmund Burke

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
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
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
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
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People

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