Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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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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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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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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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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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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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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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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