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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKE

Applaud Fall Recover Run
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE

Kind Learning Man
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
EDMUND BURKE

Love Man Power
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE

Digest Eat Reading Reflection
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKE

Grave Ourselves Treasure
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKE

Abandonment Power Willing
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKE

Mistake Nation Power Small
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKE

Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
EDMUND BURKE

Mindset Religion Superstition
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Evil Goodness Man Necessary

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