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

Edmund Burke

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
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
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
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
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
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself

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