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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience

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